Quotes by Red Skelton

• God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
• Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
• I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
• If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
• No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
• Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
• All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
• Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
• I left home because I was hungry.
• Congress: Bingo with billions.
• His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
• I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.