"When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds……" — Fred Allen
"When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat."
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93 Quotes by Fred Allen
Fred Allen has 93 quotes on this site.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners…
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition…
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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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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting…
— Julie Burchill
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My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The…
— Bob Hope
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Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it…
— Bob Hope
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Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.
— Harold C. Schonberg
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For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of…
— Avery Brooks
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Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken…
— Mel Torme
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He…
— Bob Newhart
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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered…
— Phil Hartman
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My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
— Don Knotts
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I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't…
— Bob Newhart
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Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong;…
— Abbey Lincoln
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