Tv Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old tv quotes, tv sayings, and tv proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The TV talked. All you could do is listen. Bob Weinstein
I find television to be very educating. Everytime somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx
My children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. Erma Bombeck
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. Robert Arp
Television, that's where to movies go when they die. Robert Arp
The nicest compliment anybody ever pays us is when they meet us at a cocktail party and say, 'You're just like you are on TV.' Matt Lauer
Great men don't watch TV. they are on TV. Joseph Bondowski
God is not your TV set, but he can see what you are watching. Joseph Bondowski
It is not good that man should be alone so television was created. Joseph Bondowski
12 hours of sleep, and 12 hours of TV, makes for a well balanced day. Joseph Bondowski
The more things I have to do the more TV I watch. Joseph Bondowski
Television is a daily menace to housework, and a nightly menace to homework. Evan Esar
Another thing that's wrong with television is that it goes in for movies that are not worth going out to see. Evan Esar
TV is an advertising medium, where the commercial urging you to save is followede by another urging you to borrow. Evan Esar
The worst thing about television are the sponsors who make the impossible programs possible. Evan Esar
A commercial gives you a headache while trying to sell you a remedy for it. Evan Esar
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. Vincenzo Berghella
Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. Bill Copeland
TV is simply a place where people go when they get tired Kevin Devitte.
TV is for appearing on-not for looking at. Noel Coward
TV is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T.S.Elliot
Television is like the weather: We complain about it all the time, but the worse it gets, the more we seem to pay attention. Bathroom Readers' Institute
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. Jerry Seinfeld
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? Federico Fellini
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Edward R. Murrow
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? Nicholas Johnson
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. David Brinkley
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? Samuel Goldwyn
Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky
Too much television. Kills the mind. Too much loud music. Dulls the senses. John Katzenbach