Gracie Allen Short Quotes

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A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

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I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.

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My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.
On her husband, George Burns

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Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.

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This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

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The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

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When my mother had to get dinner for eight she'd just make enough for sixteen and only serve half.

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I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

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My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

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You're the only boy who ever made me cry, and I decided that if you could make me cry, I must really love you.

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Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

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As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.

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We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

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I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

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I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

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Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

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