I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny CarsonRead
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Interpretation
This quote humorously suggests that New Yorkers are so accustomed to arguing that a peaceful cab ride signals something unusual has occurred.
Johnny Carson's quote highlights the stereotypical nature of New Yorkers as people who are often outspoken and argumentative. It uses humor to indicate that if four New Yorkers can share a cab without any dispute, it is likely due to an extraordinary circumstance, such as a bank robbery, which implies that arguments are the norm in their culture.
In practice
In a comedy show highlighting the quirks of city life.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.
I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
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