Yip Harburg Quotes - Page 2

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

Virtue is its own revenge.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

Leave the atom alone.

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

WHERE and WHEN, Are lost in space. THERE and THEN, Do not embrace. So before we disappear, Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.

For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.