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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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. – Fred Allen

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. – Fred Allen

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California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange. – Fred Allen

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To good eating belongs good drinking. – German Proverb

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. – Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. – Evelyn Waugh

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness really lies in contentment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we dont know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we dont care that we dont. – Dylan Thomas

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