"They sit there in committees day after day,……" — Allan Sherman
"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."
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27 Quotes by Allan Sherman
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A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts…
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The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
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Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than…
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You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
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Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.
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I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln…
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A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
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In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive…
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Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
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The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I…
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