Allan Sherman Quotations

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

When they told Missus Cohen that she'd lost her man, She said 'Must you interrupt me when I'm playing 'Pan'?' Then she said to her partner, Missus R. J. Rosen, 'Cohen was a lovely husband, but he's no good frozen.

Four times I looked for psychiatric help, and each time I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that the psychiatrist was crazier than I was.

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Love is lovelier the 7th time around.

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

When the great history of horticulture is written I will be listed among the absent.

The whole city (Los Angeles) gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell. "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl - everything.

At first I only used the Scotch to flavor the seltzer. Then I left out the seltzer altogether and only retained the ice cubes with the Scotch. Today, I am proud to say, I have emancipated myself from all such crutches. I drink my Scotch straight.

Nothing fazes Nancy. She's always laughing and singing and happy. She's popular and well adjusted and gets straight A's in school. Where did we go wrong? Why isn't she crazy like the rest of the family?

After the Lincoln Hotel people showed their colors by demanding payment, we turned our back on them. We moved out.