ArchieEdith, you done good! Your heart was in the right place. But your brain was out to lunch.
A character in All in the Family
Played by Carroll O'Connor
All in the Family · 293 quotes
Most-quoted character in All in the Family: in 123 of its 293 quotes
Most scenes with: Mike (9), Edith Bunker (6), Gloria Stivic (3)
ArchieEdith, you done good! Your heart was in the right place. But your brain was out to lunch.
ArchieIf a woman don't have no experience, then she should stick to unskilled labor, like being a wife.
Edith: But that don't pay nothing.
Archie: But it ain't supposed to pay nothing, Edith. You're supposed to be satisfied with the, what do you call it, unseen rewards.
Edith: How would you like an unseen dinner?
ArchieEdith, with you, a "surprise" could be anything from a runaway horse to a Puerto Rican.
ArchieDING-DONG, Edith, Ding-Dong!
ArchieAnyways, (a bald spot) is a sign of brains. You know the old saying, "Grass don't grow on a busy street"?
Edith: And it don't grow in cement, neither.
ArchieWhy don't you do what all the men do with their bright ideas? They drop them in the suggestion box.
Irene: Oh, good. Where is the suggestion box?
Archie: You know where the mens' toilet is?
Irene: Yeah.
Archie: There's three of 'em in there.
Archie(disputing Irene's claims about equal pay) In the Bible, it says God made man in His own image. And he made women after, from a rib—cheaper cut.
ArchieLet me tell you this: Equality is unfair!
ArchieGod has one of them voices that you never, ever forget... You know, like Bing Crosby.
ArchieIt makes a man stop and think when he's just been the victim of a miracle.
ArchieFightin' that copper ball takes all the fun out of going to the toilet!
Archie(to Edith) Don't be singing, the neighbors will think I'm killing ya here.
ArchieI'll probably live long enough to see them put a man on Mars.
Mike: What if they do that next year?
Archie: What I won't live long enough to see is a Meathead on a payroll.
ArchieI'm married. They give me five years for having Edith. Thought they'd dock me for that.
ArchieIf you keep minusing, I'll be dead in 1965!
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