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Long-time "center square" and court jester in residence on the original The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965), Paul Lynde's quips on that show are still quoted, and laughed at, to this day.

The coroner who examined his body said he had the heart of an 88-year-old man.

His older brother Cordon died in World War II.

Explained his lifelong bachelorhood to fans (in the days before "coming out") by telling them his high-school sweetheart had broken his heart, and he was still too hurt to give other women a chance.

Lynde and long-term companion, Bing Davidson were staying at the Drake hotel in San Francisco, California on July 17, 1965. The two went out the next day for a good time and got very drunk. Davidson decided to show Lynde a trick and dangled off the hotel balcony by his fingers. He was slipping and Paul desperately tried to help him in, but Davidson fell to his death.

Upon telling his family he wanted to go into show business: "My dad hit the roof and I hit the road, simultaneously."

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me. An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I have so many friends who were lovers. After they got married, it was over.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

I don't meet enough women outside show business, and I wouldn't marry anyone in this field. [in 1969]