If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNERWhy can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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I could have danced all night!
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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