Jimmy Durante famous quotes

03-18-2025

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Nice #Successful
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Inspirational #Funny #Marriage
Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Leave Me Alone #Hell
Start off each day with a song
-- Jimmy Durante

#Song #Each Day
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Inspirational #Home #Men
What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Book #Relaxation #Doe
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Silence #Teeth #Mouths
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Character #Laughing #Mind
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!
-- Jimmy Durante

#Depression #Holes #Dictionary
Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Song #Each Day
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Animal #Men #Humanity
My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Portraiture #Noses #Bigs
At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Morning #Children #Couple
Everybody wants ta get inta da act!
-- Jimmy Durante

#Want
That's the conditions that prevail!
-- Jimmy Durante
Make someone happy, Make just one someone happy, And you will be happy, too.
-- Jimmy Durante
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!
-- Jimmy Durante

#Motivation #Looks #Months
Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!
-- Jimmy Durante

#People #Democracy #Ems
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Funny #Music #Orchestra
I hate music, especially when it's played.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Funny #Hate #Dumb
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Comedian #Radio
I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
-- Jimmy Durante

#Hurt #Nuts #Mind

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