Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Brother Theodore.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Theodore Isidore Gottlieb, mostly known as Brother Theodore, was a German-born American actor and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologues which he called "stand-up tragedy". He was described as "Boris Karloff, surrealist Salvador Dalí, Nijinsky and Red Skelton…simultaneously".
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Only what we have lost forever do we possess forever. Only when we have drunk from the river of darkness can we truly see. Only when our legs have rotted off can we truly dance. As long as there is death, there is hope
The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people.
The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.
My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.