Jack Benny Quotes

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  Jack Benny

  Topics in Funny, Sports

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  Jack Benny

• Modesty is my best quality.

  Jack Benny

• It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

  Jack Benny

• If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

  Jack Benny

• I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

  Jack Benny

• Hors D’oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  Jack Benny

• Gags die, humor doesn’t.

  Jack Benny

  Topics in Humor

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

  Jack Benny

  Topics in Age

• I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

  Jack Benny

  Topics in Success

Jack Benny (10)

Birth:	14th February, 1894
Death:	26th December, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Violinist

About

Jack Benny was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American comedian, actor and violinist. His role in several films include: Chasing Rainbows, The Medicine Man, Broadway Melody of 1936, It's in the Air, College Holiday, Man About Town, Charley's Aunt, To Be or Not to Be, and The Horn Blows at Midnight.

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