Victor Borge Quotes
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.