MILTON BERLE QUOTES

American comedian (1908-2002)

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, For Better and For Worse: The Best Quotes about Marriage


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, POWER Optimism

Tags: opportunity


Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?

MILTON BERLE

attributed, Humor from the Net

Tags: Adam & Eve


Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!"

MILTON BERLE

attributed, Los Angeles Magazine, Jun. 2005

Tags: Los Angeles


It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

MILTON BERLE

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I'll show you a lucky man--his secretary's lipstick is the same color as his wife's!

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File


Nostalgia is longing for a place you'd never move back to.

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File


Laughter is an instant vacation.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, The Educator's Book of Quotes

Tags: laughter


I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.

MILTON BERLE

interview for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World


You know you're in L.A. when you put air in your tires and they cough.

MILTON BERLE

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Bagel: a doughnut dipped in cement, a Jewish brass-knuckle.

MILTON BERLE

The Terre Haute Star, March 28, 1958


God isn't dead. He's just getting a second opinion.

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File


When he got a divorce, he and his wife split the house. He got the outside.

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File


Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, Seeds of Happiness

Tags: money


What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

MILTON BERLE

attributed, sComedy


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.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes


Divorce is the future tense of marriage.

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File

Tags: divorce


Repartee is what you wish you'd said.

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File


The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, quotefancy


I pay my alimony on the button. I'm afraid that if I don't, my ex-wife will repossess me!

MILTON BERLE

Milton Berle's Private Joke File