Quote by Fred Allen
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk ab

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 gone is the host. – Fred Allen

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An actors popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. – Fred Allen

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The last time I saw him he was walking down lovers lane holding his own hand. – Fred Allen

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The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

To good eating belongs good drinking. – German Proverb

When the wine goes in, strange things come out. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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