Steve Allen Quotes
- Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog…
- Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their…
- One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
- Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
- Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
- In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
- If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
- If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be…
- Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
- Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless
- Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
- The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that…
- I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
- The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.
- Queens has some really Catholic neighborhoods. I mean exceptionally Catholic. Even the praying mantises dont just pray. They say novenas.