Quotes by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer

“Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” It’s always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

Life Is Like

Positive Thinking

Trying

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I’m glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there’s a dirty old man!

Book

Dirty

Men

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Achievement

Bereavement

Comforting

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn’t say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can’t say ‘girl’.

Example

Girl

Youth

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.

Eight

Missing

Two

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you.

Cute

Funny

Sarcastic

Be it ever so decadent, there’s no place like home.

Home

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you’re doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Education

Knowledge

Math

Don’t write naughty words on the wall if you can’t spell!

Naughty

Wall

Writing

Filth, I’m glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Filth

Mind

Sex

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Ache

Achievement

Add

Age

Answers

Army

Arrogant

Atheist

Beautiful

Bereavement

Bombs

Book

Bypass

Cant

Catholic

Christmas

Cities

College

Comedian

Comforting

Cute

Dark

Dear

Dirty

Doubt

Easy

Education

Eight

Example

Eye

Facts

Filth

Fronts

Fun

Funeral

Funny

Girl

Hate

Hearing

Heart

Henry Kissinger

Home

Important

Irreverence

Knowledge

Life

Life Is Like

Lips

Literacy

Long

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Quotes by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer

“Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” It’s always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I’m glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan and the Wizard of OZ, there’s a dirty old man!

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn’t say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can’t say ‘girl’.

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you.

Be it ever so decadent, there’s no place like home.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you’re doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Don’t write naughty words on the wall if you can’t spell!

Filth, I’m glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

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