Jack Benny Quotes
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
-
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
-
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
-
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
-
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
-
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
-
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
-
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
-
I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
-
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
-
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
-
The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
-
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
-
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
-
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
-
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
-
I have always advised men to read.
-
It's really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think.
-
I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
-
I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.
-
My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.
-
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
