Milton Berle - biography

Biography

Milton Berle is best-known for the following films:

Milton Berle Quotes

“Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.”

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

“A committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.”

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

“Poverty is not a disgrace, but it’s terribly inconvenient.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

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

“Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.”

“I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s sixth husband. I know what I’m supposed to do, but I don’t know how to make it interesting.”

“I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can’t get killed by a blank?”

“I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.”

“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.”

“The company accountant is shy and retiring. He’s shy a quarter of a million dollars. That’s why he’s retiring.”

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”

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