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Jimmy Durante

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


— Jimmy Durante


#marriage #humor

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


— Jimmy Durante


#breathe #every #her #impediment #now

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.


— Jimmy Durante


#care #going #how #i #known

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.


— Jimmy Durante


#because #down #meet #nice #people

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.


— Jimmy Durante


#man #more #once #only #skinned

Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.


— Jimmy Durante


#be kind #down #kind #meet #people

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.


— Jimmy Durante


#developing #did #ever #more #politics

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


— Jimmy Durante


#because #comin #down #goin #gonna

I hate music, especially when it's played.


— Jimmy Durante


#hate #i #music #played

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.


— Jimmy Durante


#else #everybody #everybody else #hell #leave






About Jimmy Durante

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Did you know about Jimmy Durante?

Beginning in the early 1950s Durante teamed with sidekick Sonny King a collaboration that would continue until Durante's death. Later years

Durante continued his film appearances through It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and television appearances through the early 1970s. Durante retired from performing in 1972 after suffering a stroke that left him confined to a wheelchair.

His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a Schnozzola and the word became his nickname. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech comic language butchery jazz-influenced songs and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.

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