Gracie Allen Quotes

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• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
• This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
• When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
• When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
• The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
• Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if…
• I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start…
• You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?
• My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.
• A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.
• They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.
• A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things -…
• Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what…
• Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.
• All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and…
• The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.
• Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so…
• A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.
• You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
• This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

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