Redd Foxx Famous Quotes
Redd Foxx
Comedian
Star of the TV Show "Sanford and Son"
Here are 12 confirmed quotes from Redd Foxx, drawn from various reliable sources including interviews, his stand-up routines, and his work on Sanford and Son. These are unique and appear across multiple attributions for verification
- “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”
- “Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
- “This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I’m coming to join ya, honey!”
- “The show doesn’t drive home a lesson, but it can open up people’s minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.”
- “If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you’re on the toilet.”
- “My first wife, I’ll never forget her — and I’ve tried.”
- “Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn’t be enslaved.”
- “You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.”
- “Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It’s a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.”
- “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink or do drugs. Because someday they’re going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won’t know why.”
- “Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven’t been out all day.”
- “I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.”
