Eddie Cantor Quotes

#1. Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.

Connie Willis

#2. Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

Eddie Cantor

#3. Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

#4. Mel Brooks was a young fan at the time: 'Eddie Cantor was very important to me. Very influential on my work. The sketches were fast and furious - and Cantor was great at supporting the other guy in the sketch. It was Cantor who was making it all work for me.

Kliph Nesteroff

#5. It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

#6. Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.

Paul O'Grady

#7. Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

Eddie Cantor

#8. People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Richard Avedon

#9. Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor ... help us keep our balance.

Hattie McDaniel

#10. Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

Eddie Cantor

#11. People say Dolphins are intelligent and that but they've never done anything that have blown me away. They say I'm a div and Dolphins are intelligent ... It just baffles me.

Karl Pilkington

#12. When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists ... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Eddie Cantor

#13. A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

Eddie Cantor

#14. It takes years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

#15. The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain

#16. A good story will always outlive the truth.

Marty Rubin

#17. I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

Mike Tyson

#18. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Don DeLillo

#19. Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had made was to fall asleep and break the spell.

David Nicholls

#20. Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

Frances Lear

#21. He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Eddie Cantor

#22. Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor

#23. We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch

Eddie Cantor

#24. Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Cantor

#25. Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

Fernando Flores

#26. If there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. All women are natural born espionage agents.

Eddie Cantor

#28. It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

#29. A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor