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John Barrymore
American
Actor
About the author
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Living
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Words
#Wife
#Arguments
My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Will
#Wife
#Mother
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Dreams
#Man
#Old
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Time
#Trouble
#Causes
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,
American
Actor
#Country
#America
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#End
#Money
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Will
#Boxing
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Man
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Company
#Finance
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Open
#Happiness
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Wonder
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Will
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Thinking
#Wife
#Wisdom
#Wives
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Love
#Meeting
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Trouble
#Women