Jimmy Durante Quotes

"Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!"
-Jimmy Durante

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

"Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down."
-Jimmy Durante

"Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone."
-Jimmy Durante

"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
-Jimmy Durante

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. "
-Jimmy Durante

"When I got through with him, he was all covered wit' blood, my blood."
-Jimmy Durante

"Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once."
-Jimmy Durante

"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