Ira Gershwin quotes:

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Life is one long jubilee.

Love is sweeping the country.

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

Oh, lady be good To me.

Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

What usually comes first is the contract.

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

I got daisies In green pastures.

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by"?Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?