"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart……" — Tom Lehrer

"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."

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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then…
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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