Ira Gershwin Quotations

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

Love is sweeping the country.

S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

Oh, lady be good To me.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Life is one long jubilee.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

I got daisies In green pastures.

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

What usually comes first is the contract.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.