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The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. - Fred Allen

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. – Fred Allen

Other quotes by Fred Allen

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

Category:
Success
Author
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

Category:
Age
Author
Fred Allen
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. – Fred Allen

Category:
funny
Author
Fred Allen
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Other Quotes from
Life
category

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Life

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Category:
Life

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. – Henry Adams

Category:
Life

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. – Samuel McChord Crothers

Category:
amazing

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John

Category:
Music

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. – Will Durant

Category:
Art

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. – Harvey Fierstein

Category:
Failure