Ira Gershwin
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.Collection: Respect
Life is one long jubilee.
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.
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
Love is sweeping the country.
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a jokeCollection: Generations
What usually comes first is the contract.Collection: Agreement
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.Collection: Latin
Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.Collection: Nice
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!Collection: Tea
But the age of miracles hadn't passed.Collection: Miracle
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.Collection: Watches
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?Collection: Music
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.Collection: Summer
S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!Collection: Care
I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.Collection: Add
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.Collection: Baby
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.Collection: Lambs
Aladdin's lamp is mine.Collection: Lamps
Oh, lady be good To me.Collection: Be Good