Tom Lehrer Quotes

I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

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• Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Money
  • Enough
  • Bank

• I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Believe
  • Percent
  • Voting

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Today

• What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • World
  • Sky
  • Soldier

• Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Sometimes

• Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Wonder
  • Knowing

• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Magic

• The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Live
  • Spirits
  • Mexico City

• You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Horse
  • Battle
  • Lead

• A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

  

  Alan Light
  • Differences
  • Rock Band
  • Similarities

• You can't hear me? Read my lips!

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Read
  • Lips
  • My

• I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Cry
  • Lips
  • Planes

• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Strong
  • Sleep
  • Emotion

• I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Lips
  • Dear
  • Ache