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Men Quotes by Fred Allen
- 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…
- Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
- A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
- During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
- The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
- Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is…
- The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home…
- I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
- A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
- A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5…
- Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
- Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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