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Smothers Quotes & Sayings

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There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason — Mike Corbett

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me. — Tom Smothers

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years. — Tom Smothers

The blackness that smothers me is total, and in the moment before everything falls away, I know what it feels like to be dead. — Michelle Zink

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. — Dick Smothers

find out if it is Marisa before she smothers. — Kristine Frost

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians. — Tom Smothers

Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart: — Jo Graham

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you! — Tommy Smothers

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny. — Tom Smothers

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished. — Tommy Smothers

Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them. — Rafik Schami

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes. — Tommy Smothers

Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. — Ogden Nash

Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine. — Penn Jillette

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. — Dick Smothers

Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you! — Tommy Smothers

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial. — Tommy Smothers

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. — Franz Kafka

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process. — Bryant McGill

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say. — Christopher Pike

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled. — Dave Foley

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts. — Tommy Smothers

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been. — Dick Smothers

Support cripples ability, pity smothers courage,
But criticism glistens rusted brilliancy. — Akshmala Sharma

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne

Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot. — Diane Ackerman

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her. — Tom Smothers

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now. — Rabih Alameddine

Hatred smothers all beauty. — Melina Marchetta

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing. — Tom Smothers

If you're ahead of your time, who's going to listen? If you're behind the times, it's boring. — Tom Smothers

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers

I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid! — Tommy Smothers

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest. — Don Novello

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.' — Pat Paulsen