Tom Lehrer Trying Quotations

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Life is like a sewer what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.