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Title Card: The crowd laughs with you always... but it will cry with you for only a day.
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John: Marriage is not a word, it's a *sentence*!
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Mary: Picnic my eye! I'm doing the same things I do every day!
John: Don't crab, dear. Everything's goin' to be roses... when my ship comes in.
Mary: Your ship? A worm must be towing it down from the North Pole!
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John: Look at that crowd! The poor boobs... all in the same rut!
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Jane: [to Bert after passing a diorama depicting Washington crossing the Delaware] Sit down. You don't look historical. You look hysterical.
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Title Card: We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is... until we get out of step with it.
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John's Boyhood Friend: What are you gonna be when you grow up, Whitey?
Whitey - John's Black Boyhood Friend: I detend to be a preacher man! Hallelujah!
John's Nerdy Boyhood Friend: I purpose to seek occupation as a cowboy
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Man on NYC Ferry: You've gotta be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.
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Bert: I've got a pair of wrens dated up for Coney Island. Want to make it a foursome?
John: Nothin' doin', Bert! I'm studying nights!
Bert: Aw, come on! These babies have got what ain't in books!
John: Well, I'll try anything once...
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John: This night-life is my speed, Bert Old Bean! We gotta do it often!
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Bert: [Making introductions] Jane... John! John... Jane! Mary... John! John... Mary!
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Bert: [Advice to Johnny as he leaves on his honeymoon] Don't forget to pull down the shades.
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Train Porter: Did I hear you-all speakin' 'bout havin' yo' bed made up?
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Mary: Will you put the folding bed in its garage?
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Party Girl at Bert's Place: Oh, Gee, Baby! How did the angels ever let you leave Heaven?
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Party Girl at Bert's Place: Gee, but you're a great, big, good lookin' some-account man!
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Mary: You'd try the patience of a Saint!
John: You're no soothing syrup yourself!
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Title Card: During the next five years two eventful things happened to the Simses. A baby sister was born... and John received an $8 raise.
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John: This is the way I work! I'm the old go-getting kid!
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John: I've brought home the bacon, Mary! Five hundred bucks!
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Junior: Why don't you never play with me any more? I like to play with you. Doesn't Momma like you? I like you. When I grow up I wanta be just like you.
John: You still love me? You still believe in me, boy?
Junior: Sure I do, Pop!
John: We can do it, boy! We'll show them!
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John: [laughing at a juggling clown] The poor sap! And I bet his father thought he would be President!
The Crowd Quotes
Extended Reading
