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Quotes by Fred Allen

  • California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
  • The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
  • If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.
  • I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
  • A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
  • You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
  • Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
  • I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
  • Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted.
  • Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
  • Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
  • What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement
  • A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
  • Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
  • Television is the triumph of machine over people.