- Alice Kramden: Will you be sensible, Ralph? You don't play it any more.
- Ralph Kramden: That's got nothing to do with it. I want to keep it.
- Alice Kramden: Alright Ralph, you haven't touched it in years,
- Ralph Kramden: I wanna keep it.
- Ed Norton: He's right, Alice. He hasn't touched his toes in years either, he still wants to keep them.
- Ralph Kramden: I could never hit that high note.
- Alice Kramden: You know something? I liked it better with the sock in it.
- Ralph Kramden: I'd like you a little better with a sock in you.
- Alice Kramden: [Ralph tries to play but no sound comes out] Not so loud, Ralph. You'll disturb the neighbors.
- Ed Norton: Maybe it's one of those high-frequency cornets that only dogs can hear.
- Ralph Kramden: [Ralph pulls out a sock] What's a sock doing in my cornet?
- Alice Kramden: It must be one of the tender memories that's attached to it.
- Ralph Kramden: That's the story of my life. I could always make great starts, but I never finished. Never finished anything, could never hit the high note on anything I tried.
- Alice Kramden: I like the new Ralph Kramden and I'm not gonna let you give up. And if the old Ralph Kramden ever shows his face around here again, I am gonna hit him right on top of the head with this cornet.
- Ralph Kramden: You know something? I did hit that high note once... the day I married you.
- Ralph Kramden: It was one of those questions where you have a choice of what you want to answer, you know. It said if you were heating your own home and oil was 12 cents a gallon and it went up 7%, and coal at the same time was $14 a ton and that went up 9%, well what would you do? What do you think Norton said? Pack up and move to Florida.