210 Quotes by Milton Berle

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    The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let’s Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

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    Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it’s the kids who have to do all the work.

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    I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won’t let me plug it in.

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    We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.

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    I don’t mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you’re insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

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    I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it’s wrong.

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    I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

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    They’ve finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

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    She wanted an Italian sports car – with the sport still in it.

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