Great Throughts Treasury

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."

"After you get what you want you don't want it. "

"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

"A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts."

"A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun."

"A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day."

"All alone by the telephone."

"And children listen"

"And may all your Christmases be white."

"Anything you can do I can do better."

"Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life."

"From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam. God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!"

"Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long"

"God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above."

"Dancing cheek to cheek."

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."

"God bless America, my home sweet home,"

"Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak."

"I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done."

"I can do anything better than you."

"How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?"

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know."

"In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade."

"It's a lovely day today so whatever you've got to do you've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true and I hope whatever you've got to do is something that can be done by two. For I'd really like to stay. It's a lovely day today and whatever you've got to do I'd be so happy to be doing it with you. But if you've got something that must be done and it can only be done by one there is nothing more to say except it's a lovely day for saying it's a lovely day!"

"I got lost but look what I found."

"It's February the 22nd and I can't tell a lie."

"Just like the ones I used to know,"

"I've got my love to keep me warm."

"She was wrapped up and sold coming back from an old fashioned walk."

"Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it."

"Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister..."

"Let's face the music and dance."

"Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies."

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

"Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines."

"Stand beside her, and guide her."

"Talent is only a starting point... You've got to keep working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."

"They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say."

"The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl."

"There's no business like show business."

"Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie."

"There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance."

"There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny."

"When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep."

"Through the night, with the light from above."

"To hear sleigh bells in the snow."

"We got to keep on being a success."

"With every Christmas card I write?"

"Where the tree tops glisten"