NewYork Famous Quotes and jokes about New York - Have a laugh at New York.

Neil Simon moved to LA about fifteen years ago, then moved back after a year. Asked the difference, he replied, "When it's 32 degrees in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles. When it's 102 degrees in New York, it's 78 in Los Angeles. There are about two million interesting people in New York -- and 78 in Los Angeles."

Neil Simon. Writer.

George M. Cohan

"Give my regards to Broadway,/ Remember me to Herald Square./ Tell all the gang at Forty-second Street/ That I will soon be there."

-- Give My Regards to Broadway

George M. Cohan, Composer - lyrics and music

"This city here is like an open sewer. It's full of filth and scum."

-- Taxi Driver

Travis Bickle

(Robert DeNiro)

"New York is a great city to live in if you can afford to get out of it"

-- William Cole, 1992

"So here we are in New-York. To a Frenchman the aspect of the city is bizarre and not very agreeable. One sees neither dome, nor bell tower, nor great edifice, with the result that one has the constant impression of being in a suburb."

-- Journey to America, 1831

Alexis de Tocqueville

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine

David Letterman

All of New York City is in the holiday spirit. Here’s an example. I ran into a mugger and he let me go as long as I promised to write him a check

David Letterman

No matter how many times I visit this great city I'm always struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab.

Scott Adams

"New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them -- this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it."

-Saul Bellow

No other American city is so intensely American as New York."

-- North America

Anthony Trollope