40 funny city quotes - Wordgag

Another day of explaining to mom that New York is big and the footage she saw wasn’t shot on my street.

May 24, 2026

Any place is a walkable city if you’re broke enough.

May 23, 2026

Nobody ever talks about how Sodom and Gomorrah were walkable cities.

May 23, 2026

Pitching a sitcom where all the top people running a major city have been arrested and by chain of command the person in charge is now a librarian.

May 23, 2026

Big city friend is complaining about a 10 minute wait for a subway while I sit here waiting for the rail replacement horse.

May 23, 2026

I hope this email finds you in the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.

May 22, 2026

You live in a great city when you get pooped on by a seagull instead of a pigeon.

May 22, 2026

Oh, you like NYC? Name every rat.

May 22, 2026

Remember: when a band skips your city on tour, it is always personal and they always hate you specifically.

May 22, 2026

Why’s it always “NYC smells like pee” and never “my pee smells like the greatest city in the world”?

May 21, 2026

If you’re riding a bike in New York City, it means you care about your health. Riding one in Tennessee means you got a DUI.

May 21, 2026

Welcome to downtown where the crosswalk signals are merely suggestions and you hope the puddles are water.

May 21, 2026

We need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don’t actually like going out.

May 19, 2026

Right before rock bottom, you’ll have a city builder game on your phone.

May 19, 2026

People in NYC are like, let me know if you’re ever in NYC.

May 19, 2026

My southern family thinks my daily routine in NYC is that I wake up, try really hard not to get stabbed by a knife, and then I go see a musical.

May 19, 2026

Trying to watch a superhero movie without stressing about the infrastructure damage to the city.

May 19, 2026

Vacations are expensive, but how else could you put a price tag on your kids being ungrateful in a different city.

May 18, 2026

If I were a mouse and I lived in Moscow, I would think, haha, I live in Mousecow!

Apr 1, 2026

New York is so awesome. Like, yes, let’s spend $108 for breakfast and walk past homeless people freezing.

Apr 1, 2026

I need to move to New York and be miserable. I think it’d be so good for me.

Apr 1, 2026

Why does Bruce Wayne, the billionaire, not simply rig Gotham City’s elections in favor of tough-on-crime candidates?

Apr 1, 2026

So stupid how New York is actually as cool as everyone says.

Apr 1, 2026

The best part about NYC is you literally see a brand new, hottest woman in your entire life every single day.

Apr 1, 2026

Thinking after a concert that the artist liked your city/show the most is like thinking the bartender flirted with you.

Apr 1, 2026

That thing they say about getting drunk with the love of your life in a walkable city is no joke. It hits like crack.

Apr 1, 2026

Hey there, Delilah, what’s it like in new orc city?

Mar 31, 2026

Take me down to the Moria city, where the girls are green and the boys are stinky… and even Gandalf said ‘Nope, too freaky!’

Mar 30, 2026

I can’t watch Sex and the City anymore, because I get really upset at how much money these ladies have.

Mar 30, 2026

I’m not exaggerating when I say, if I ever clogged a toilet at work, I would immediately quit, change my name, and then move to a different city.

Mar 30, 2026

“I could see myself living here,” I said, in a different city for more than 24 hours.

Mar 30, 2026

Theo Von’s entire life is like a raccoon that visits New York City.

Mar 29, 2026

King Kong should’ve been able to find a better place to hide than the top of the tallest building in the middle of New York City.

Mar 29, 2026

When it rains in New York, the train starts smelling like hamster.

Mar 29, 2026

Vatican City should be called Popenhagen.

Mar 29, 2026

Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Mar 29, 2026

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Mar 28, 2026

The worst part about borrowing money is having to pay it back or move to a new city.

Mar 28, 2026

People just don’t build cities on rock and roll anymore.

Mar 28, 2026

The potholes in my city will change your radio station and unlock the doors.

Mar 28, 2026