Fred Allen

More from Fred Allen

• Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns⁠—he should be drawn and quoted.

  • Comedy

• I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

  • Clever Jabs

• I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

  Letter to Groucho Marx.

  • Clever Jabs

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy