Oscar Levant on comedy

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.’

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

Groucho Marx1890–1977

A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he’d claim it was ‘just a sprain’.

Dave Barryborn 1947

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