Victor Borge Quotes

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• One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

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  Father, Home, Fire

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• Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

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  Inspirational, Cute, Relationship

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• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

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  Funny, Christmas, Witty

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• A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

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  Smile, Curves

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• I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

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  Mind, Growing, Aging

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• Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

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  Happiness, Remember, Never Forget

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• Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

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  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

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  Humor, Men, Logic

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• And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.

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  Play, Saloons, Debussy

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• Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

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  Piano, People, Legs

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• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

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  Laughter, Distance, Two

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• I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

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  Request, Courses, Has Beens

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• The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

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  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

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  Laughter, Eye, Government

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• In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

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  Youth, Found, Wanted

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• What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.

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  Dog, Differences, Arms

  "Victor Borge, 91, Comic Piano Virtuoso, Dies" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. December 24, 2000.

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• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

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  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

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• Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

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  Three, Flats, Moved

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• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

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  Two, Pieces, Knows

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• The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

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  Piano, Long, Firsts

  "The Very Best of Victor Borge". Book by Victor Borge, 1995.

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• I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

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  Elephants, Piano, White

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• Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

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  Funny, Music, Humorous

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