"This is a really good circus. It has lions, tigers, dogs, monkeys and about any other animal act you can think of. There are a lot of great acts, and it's a two part, two hour show."

“The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.”

Source : 11th R.A. Fisher Memorial Lectures Royal Society 20 April 1983

“It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.”

“You can't help the poor by being one of them.”

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

“Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you'll do well.”

“I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'”

“I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tim Conway from Mar 11, 2016

“When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.”