My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. – Flip Wilson
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you dont get sick youre missing half the fun. – Flip Wilson
My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine. – Flip Wilson
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. – Flip Wilson
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. – Benjamin Disraeli