Fred Allen
Quotations
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
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