If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNERPleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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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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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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Men die but an idea does not.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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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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On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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