Allan Sherman American Musician Quotations

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.