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E. Y. Harburg Quotes

«O innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse:To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let a kiss fool you is worse.»
«Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.»
Author: E. Y. Harburg (Librettist, Lyricist, Song Writer) | About: Music | Keywords: feeling, song
«No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswervingly believes in me.»
«Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.»
«April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.»
«You're paid to stop a bullet.It's a soldier's job, they say.And so you stop your bullet,And then they stop your pay.»
«Leave the atom alone.»
«'For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.»