Tom Lehrer Quotes

Life is like a sewer.  What you get out of it depends on what you put in.
— Tom Lehrer An Evening (Wasted) with Tom Lehrer

I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up.
— Tom Lehrer That Was the Year That Was

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
— Tom Lehrer

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer

It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for a year.
— Tom Lehrer