Bud Abbott Quotes

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

The more laws, the less justice.

People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

I cannot do what you have asked me to do.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers

I can't do nothing just a little.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

When you can't do what you love all of a sudden because of an uncontrollable situation, it sucks.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

restrictions create frustrations!

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

I can't stop [Donald Trump] from doing what he wants to do.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.