Fred Allen Quotes
Most popular Fred Allen Quotes
![Imitation is the sincerest form of television. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/22/24322A-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-television-fred-allen.png)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
![You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/51/14651A-you-only-live-once-but-if-you-work-it-right-fred-allen.png)
You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
![He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/76/21276A-he-writes-so-well-he-makes-me-feel-like-putting-fred-allen.png)
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back.
![An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/25/22025A-an-advertising-agency-is-85-percent-confusion-15-percent-commission-fred-allen.png)
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
![I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/08/23008A-i-like-long-walks-especially-when-they-are-taken-by-fred-allen.png)
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
![To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/25/36525A-to-a-newspaperman-a-human-being-is-item-with-skin-fred-allen.png)
To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.
![Committee—A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/44/28344A-committee-a-group-of-men-who-individually-can-do-nothing-fred-allen.png)
Committee—A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
![An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/91/25191A-an-actors-success-has-the-life-expectancy-small-boy-about-fred-allen.png)
An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
![A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/18/23718A-a-conference-is-a-gathering-of-people-who-singly-can-fred-allen.png)
A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
![A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/15/8315A-a-celebrity-is-a-person-who-works-hard-all-his-fred-allen.png)
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
![Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/82/52882A-most-of-us-spend-the-first-six-days-each-week-fred-allen.png)
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
![You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/38/22238A-you-can-take-all-the-sincerity-hollywood-place-it-navel-fred-allen.png)
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
![Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/94/34694A-life-in-my-estimation-is-a-biological-misadventure-that-we-fred-allen.png)
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
![A vice-president in an advertising agency is a "molehill man." A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch. - Fred Allen quote.](/img/q/20/22020A-a-vice-president-in-an-advertising-agency-is-molehill-man-fred-allen.png)
A vice-president in an advertising agency is a "molehill man." A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.