You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
ALAN KINGEating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
More Alan King Quotes
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One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
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If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
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Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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Modesty is not one of my virtues.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That’s what the trees are all about.
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