Tom Lehrer Quotes

On Christmas day you can’t get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There’s time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four.

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale) And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, […]

First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, Then genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Make a cross on your abdomen When in Rome, do like the Romans Everybody say his own Kyrie Eleison Doin’ the Vatican Rag!

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Moslems And everybody hates the Jews But during National Brotherhood Week – National Brotherhood Week – It’s National Everyone-Smile-At- One-Another-hood Week Be nice to people who Are inferior to you It’s only for a week, so have no […]

During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood. This year, for example, on the first day of the week Malcolm X was killed – which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is. I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one […]

Now, I’m sure you’re all aware that this week is national gall-bladder week. So as sort of an educational feature at this point I thought I would acquaint you with some of the results of my recent researches into the career of the late doctor Samuel Gall, inventor of the gall-bladder. Which certainly ranks as […]

In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you are doing rather than to get the right answer.

It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years!

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.