Famous Quotes / Fred Allen
41 Quotations by Fred Allen
- 21. I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal labotomy.
- 22. I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how i ...
- 23. If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
- 24. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- 25. Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six stran ...
- 26. Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and ...
- 27. My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
- 28. My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
- 29. Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making ...
- 30. Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do a ...
- 31. Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
- 32. Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
- 33. Television is the triumph of machine over people.
- 34. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or ...
- 35. The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
- 36. The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that h ...
- 37. Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
- 38. We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to s ...
- 39. What's on your mind, if you'll forgive the over-statement.
- 40. When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yes ...