Milton Berle Quotes

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

Milton Berle

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• When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Money
  • House
  • First

• The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.

  

  John L. Flannery

• The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Trying
  • Circumstances
  • Condition

• I think people should be consumers of journalism.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Should

• Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Literature
  • Gypsy
  • Picturesque

• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Worst

• I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Literature

• When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Time
  • Trust

• The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Speed
  • Tongue
  • Rate

• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Glory
  • Secrets
  • I Love You

• Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Community
  • Conscience
  • Defense

• With my wife I get no respect. I fell asleep with a cigarette in my hand. She lit it.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Respect
  • Hand

• It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you're just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Authority

• A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Man
  • Wisdom
  • Powers

• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Why
  • Fence

• My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

  

  Milton Berle
  • My Wife
  • Valentine
  • Envelope