If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
ALAN KINGAs life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up ‘vaudeville’ in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says ‘Milton Berle’ – and he made it just a tremendous party.
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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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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As a parent, I’d – I’d be a better father.
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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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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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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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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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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’m only… I’m only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I’m a… I’m just screaming all over the place with joy.
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