"Adults ask questions as a child does. When……" — Johnny Carson
"Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day."
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55 Quotes by Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson has 55 quotes on this site.
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have…
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the…
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
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Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
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Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you…
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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