Allen Quotes

Agnes Allen - “Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.”

Dick Allen - “If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. Complaining about artificial turf.”

Dick Allen - “I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realize that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us.”

Dick Allen - “Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down.”

Dick Allen - “I wish they'd shut the gates and let us play ball with no press and no fans.”

Dr. Roger Michael Ashley Allen - “Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back.”

Elizabeth Akers Allen - “Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for tonight!”

Elizabeth Akers Allen - “Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,— Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again!”

Ethan Allen - “Reason the Only Oracle of Man”

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Ethan Allen - “The mortal remains of Ethan Allen, fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher, lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue. His spirit is in Vermont now.”

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Ethan Allen - “In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, 'General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.' Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well—let 'em wait.”

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Ethan Allen - “For mankind to hate truth as it may bring their evil deeds to light and punishment, is very easy and common, but to hate truth as truth, or God as God, which is the same as to hate goodness for its own sake, unconnected with any other consequences, is impossible even to a (premised) diabolical nature itself .”

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Ethan Allen - “Captain Delaplace, Commandant at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, on May 10, 1775, gazed at Allen in bewildered astonishment. 'By whose authority do you act?' exclaimed he. 'In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!' replied Allen.”

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Fred Allen - “Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”

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Fred Allen - “A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.”

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Fred Allen - “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

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Fred Allen - “I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself there.”

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Fred Allen - “California is a fine place to live — if you happen to be an orange.”

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Fred Allen - “Committee — a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.”

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Fred Allen - “Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.”

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Fred Allen - “Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.”

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Fred Allen - “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.”

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Fred Allen - “Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.”

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Fred Allen - “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.”

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Fred Allen - “A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”

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