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
I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone. – Flip Wilson
You cant expect to hit the jackpot if you dont put a few nickels in the machine. – Flip Wilson
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you dont get sick youre missing half the fun. – Flip Wilson
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881