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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
Red Skelton
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton
They're taking shortcuts to get a big laugh instead of working for their audience. They can finish a show, hang up their tux and shirt, and put it up for next time. With mine, you have to wring out the sweat and send it to the cleaners. You gotta go out and work for your audience.
Red Skelton
A comedian goes out and hits people right on. A clown uses pathos. He can be funny, then turn right around and reach people and touch them with what life is like.
Red Skelton
Why quit? It's the only thing I know. Quitting is like hanging up your soul on the wall and closing the door on it.
Red Skelton
I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.
Red Skelton
Congress: Bingo with billions.
Red Skelton
I left home because I was hungry.
Red Skelton
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
Red Skelton
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
Red Skelton
