Best Quotes by Neil Simon (Top 10)

  1. I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
  2. When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.
  3. If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
  4. Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
  5. Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.
  6. Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
  7. If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
  8. I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
  9. Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
  10. Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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