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
Color, Committee, Which, Committees
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
Living, Hollywood, Colony, Leper
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
Game, Play, Been, Triple
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
- Allan Sherman
Act, Started, Bottom, Downhill
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
Love, Ahead, Other, Shoe
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
Luck, Winning, Could, Cheated
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
Strong, Beginning, Play, Sit
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
- Allan Sherman
Somewhere, Way, Over, Tall
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
- Allan Sherman
Reality, Difference, Unreality
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
New, Southern, Which, Divorce
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
- Allan Sherman
Making, Either, Having, Meeting
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
- Allan Sherman
Own, Will, Might, Imitate
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
- Allan Sherman
Winning, Success Is, Always, Crash
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
Making, Could, Began, Steady
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
Living, Cheaper, Edison, Hotel
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
- Allan Sherman
History, Great, Will, Contents
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