Milton Berle Quotes

I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

Milton Berle

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• I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Praise
  • Salt

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Learning

• Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Legacy
  • Missed
  • New Years

• Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Magical

• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good
  • Dinner
  • New Years

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Water
  • Touring
  • Salt

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Determine
  • Grain
  • Salt

• Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Sugar

• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Food
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Rose
  • Salt
  • Dried

• You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Earth
  • Taste
  • Salt

• Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.

  

  Blaine Nye
  • Brand
  • Remembers
  • Salt

• How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.

  

  Emile Argand
  • Light
  • Salt
  • Immensity

• I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

  

  Eric Sykes
  • Champion
  • Chess
  • Salt

• A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Teacher
  • Child
  • Suggests

• I feel very peaceful.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Feel
  • Peaceful
  • I Feel

• I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.

  

  Willi Smith
  • Father
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Best

• All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Children
  • She
  • Job

• I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • News
  • Mission

• I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Salt
  • New Years
  • Aspirins