Quotes from Moms Mabley

You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

That man is so old, he's older than his birthday.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.