Fred Allen Quotes

• Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in ridiculous, Style

• Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Good, Hanging

• I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can’t remember what the third thing is.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Remember, Trouble

• Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in People, Hollywood

• I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Understand, Person

• I don’t want to own anything that won’t fit into my coffin.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Anything

• I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Thing, Find

• I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Little, Instrument

• I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Front, Rather

• If I could get my membership fee back, I’d resign from the human race.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Human, Membership

• Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Imitation, Television

• It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Private, Recognize, Supportive

• 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.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Spend, Church

• 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.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Objective, Estimation

• My uncle is a Southern planter. He’s an undertaker in Alabama.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Uncle

• Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Making, Little

• What’s on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Mind, Allow

• Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Recognize, Movie, Afraid

• Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in People, Anything

• Television is the triumph of machine over people.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in People, Television

Fred Allen (51)

Birth:	31st May, 1894
Death:	17th March, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

About

John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio. He was honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to television and radio.

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