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Tom Lehrer

American musical satirist and mathematics professor  ·  3 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (672 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

[aphorist] Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in [category] Life and Death

An Evening Wasted (audio CD)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (171 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

[aphorist] Tom Lehrer, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (176 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

[aphorist] Tom Lehrer, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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