Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
ALAN JAY LERNERWhy can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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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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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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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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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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I could have danced all night!
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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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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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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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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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