Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.

Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?