...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.
Lenny BruceI've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.
Lenny BruceYou put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
Lenny BruceGuys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.
Lenny BruceYou are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!
Lenny Bruce