Allan Sherman Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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,.