"Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness,……" — Tom Lehrer
"Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most pretentious, is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste."
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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer has 68 quotes on this site.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then…
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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