There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share
