47 Quotes by Walter Matthau


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    My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.

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    Why don’t you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.

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    There’s no such thing as ‘too late!’ That’s why they invented death!

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    I don’t mind my wife having to last word. In fact I’m delighted when she reaches it.

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    I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you’d give him money, and he’d give you something that you wanted to buy.

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    I never worked with Marilyn Monroe, but if she’d lived, I think she would have been all right. She would have been President of the United States.

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    We’re writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

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