Fred A. Allen
American comic
Lived from: 1894 - 1956
Category: Comedians Country: 
United States
Born: 31 may 1894 Died: 17 march 1956
Quotes 21 till 32 of 32.
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
― Fred A. Allen
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