IRA GERSHWIN

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

Life is one long jubilee.

Love is sweeping the country.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

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.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

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.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram.

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

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.

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Oh, lady be good To me.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

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.

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

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!

What usually comes first is the contract.