Quotes & Jokes by Mort Sahl
There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.
Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning 50 feet off shore, he'd throw you a 30 foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women.
When Obama ran, he said, "We can change the world!" The world: can you change it back?!
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.