"Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize."
― Tom Lehrer
Topic(s):
War
More From Tom Lehrer
- "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."
- "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
- "Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh."
More In War
- "If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married."― Katharine Hepburn
- "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- "There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun."― Alison Lurie