Allan Sherman

Luck Winning Could

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

- Allan Sherman

Making Began Could

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

- Allan Sherman

New Southern Which

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.

- Allan Sherman

Color Committee Which

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

- Allan Sherman

Always Very Means

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

- Allan Sherman

Living Hollywood Colony

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.

- Allan Sherman

Making Having Either

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

- Allan Sherman

Game Play Been

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

- Allan Sherman

Bottom Act Started

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

- Allan Sherman

Love Ahead Other

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.

- Allan Sherman

Living Cheaper Edison

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.

- Allan Sherman

Own Will Might

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

- Allan Sherman

Strong Beginning Play

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

- Allan Sherman

History Great Will

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

- Allan Sherman

Way Somewhere Over

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

- Allan Sherman

Winning Always Success Is

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

- Allan Sherman

Difference Unreality

American, Musician

Total Quotes : 17

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

- Allan Sherman

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

- Allan Sherman

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.

- Allan Sherman

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

- Allan Sherman

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

- Allan Sherman

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.

- Allan Sherman

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

- Allan Sherman

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

- Allan Sherman

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

- Allan Sherman

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.

- Allan Sherman

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.

- Allan Sherman

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

- Allan Sherman

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

- Allan Sherman

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

- Allan Sherman

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

- Allan Sherman

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

- Allan Sherman

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

- Allan Sherman

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