Fred Allen Quotes

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

What’s on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Advertising agency: eighty five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission.

An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.