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An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. ↗

— Fred Allen

#actor #boy #expectancy #fleeting #gas

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #group #individually #meet

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. ↗

— Fred Allen

#form #income #income tax #laundry #like

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ↗

— James Allen

#director #discovers #his #later #man

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#adjusting #desire #difficult #difficult things #entire

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. ↗

— Fred Allen

#device #haven #people #permits #television

Television is the triumph of machine over people. ↗

— Fred Allen

#over #people #television #triumph

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. ↗

— Fred Allen

#bad #competition #good #good actor #great

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. ↗

— Fred Allen

#been #comedian #comedy #compelled #compete

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic