That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
ALAN KINGFor me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
More Alan King Quotes
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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
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I always plan dinner first thing in the morning.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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My lawyer said, “Shouldn’t be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?” I said, “Fire and theft.” The lawyer frowned. “Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.”
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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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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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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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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If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
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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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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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