"In my youth there were words you couldn't……" — Tom Lehrer
"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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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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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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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied…
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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
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