35 Quotes by Ira Gershwin

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 gazesAs if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

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

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.

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

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

Love is sweeping the country.

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

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.