E. Y. Harburg Quotes

You're paid to stop a bullet.
It's a soldier's job, they say.
And so you stop your bullet,
And then they stop your pay. - E. Y. Harburg

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E. Y. Harburg

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. - E. Y. Harburg

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near. - E. Y. Harburg

There ought to be a law against necessity. - E. Y. Harburg

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive. - E. Y. Harburg

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea. - E. Y. Harburg

Leave the atom alone. - E. Y. Harburg

'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. - E. Y. Harburg

Follow the yellow brick road. - E. Y. Harburg

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