Quote

Television is a triumph of equipment over people.

Fred Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Gnats
Navel
Equipment
Triumph
Television
People

More quotes by Fred Allen

Image
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
Fred Allen
Image
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen
Image
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
Fred Allen
Image
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen
Image
On ships they call them barnacles in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Fred Allen
Image
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
Fred Allen
Image
A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
Fred Allen
Image
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen
Image
He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
Fred Allen
Image
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen
Image
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
Image
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred Allen
Image
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
Fred Allen
Image
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred Allen
Image
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
Fred Allen
Image
There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.
Fred Allen
Image
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
Image
The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
Image
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
Image
English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
Fred Allen