That's the conditions that prevail!
Quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why - 1946 by Anna Roth.
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
Quoted in Informationweek Issues Nos.699-702 - 1998.
Inka Dinka Doo - 1933, written with Fred Ryan and Harry Donnelly.
Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.
Quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom - 1958 by Herbert Victor Prochnow.
Quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why - 1946 by Anna Rothe.
Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
Famous sign-off line to all his radio and TV shows, the meaning of which he never publicly revealed, leading to much speculation and many theories. Only after his death did it become public knowledge that it was reference to his first wife, Jeanne Olson, who died in 1943, and that Calabash was a private name between them for Calabasas, California, where she spent much of the final years of her life.
Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.
Quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole - 1941 by Harry Allen Smith. Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?