183 Quotes by Tom Lehrer

Everything is so weird in politics that it’s very hard to be funny about it, I think.

I’m not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they’re in the style of songs that I grew up with.

Don’t write naughty words on the wall if you can’t spell!

From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you’re left with two.

Irreverence is easy – whats hard is wit.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it’s American as apple pie.

Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.

I would do nightclubs and concerts – particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did – and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren’t going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you’re missing two fingers.