Author Profile
Fred Allen
1894 – 1956 • American • Comedian
50
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 50 quotesAn 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
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.— Fred Allen
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.— Fred Allen
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.— Fred Allen
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.— Fred Allen
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.— Fred Allen
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.— Fred Allen