Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
ALAN JAY LERNERYou will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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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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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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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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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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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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