"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." ― Tom Lehrer Topic(s): History Tags: sobering, thought More From Tom Lehrer "Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize." "Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh." "My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun." More In History "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."― Theodore Roosevelt "The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."― Virginia Woolf "For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."― Margaret Mead