Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehreris an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and '60s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth9 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
peace war moving
When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!
eye men research
Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.
night temperament performers
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
prophet worst
Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.
funny sarcastic kind-deeds
Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
two years age
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
lips ache dear
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
play enjoy
Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
preaching audience
The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.
christmas men three
On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four
humorous angel heard
Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
laughter laughing involuntary
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
dancing tango raises
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
want puppeteer
I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.