John Barrymore Quotes

• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

  John Barrymore

  Relationship, Sexy, Witty

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• Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Money, Months

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• You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

  John Barrymore

  Fear, Failure, Risk

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• In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

  John Barrymore

  Men, Relief, Sometimes

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• The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

  John Barrymore

  Life, Beautiful, Littles

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

  John Barrymore

  Dying, Lasts

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• America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

  John Barrymore

  Beautiful, Wife, Cute Funny

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Venus De Milo, Boxing, Missing

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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• My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

  John Barrymore

  Regret, Watches, Complaining

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• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

  John Barrymore

  Good Morning, Food, Giving

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• You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.

  John Barrymore

  Drinking, Drink, Floats

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

  John Barrymore

  Wonder, Modern, Verses

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• Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

  John Barrymore

  Ice, Glasses, Acting

  Quoted in Actors about Acting, Loving, Living, Life (1972).

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• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

  John Barrymore

  Bad Ass, Atheism, Famous Last Words

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

  John Barrymore

  Life, Dying, Use

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  John Barrymore

  Today, Sun, Hot

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

  John Barrymore

  Men, Symphony, Orchestra

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• My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

  John Barrymore

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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• If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

  John Barrymore

  Attachment, Vacuums, Debt

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