You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
ALAN KINGThe other day my house caught fire.
More Alan King Quotes
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I won’t eat in a place that has suits of armor.
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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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There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor.
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Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
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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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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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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It’s much more fun.
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For me, that wasn’t such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time.
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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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We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator…
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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I had a sympathetic role in ‘thirtysomething,’ and in two weeks I’m going to do the role again.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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