Skip Owens: [kissing girls hand and begins to go up arm] oh, sorry - its the salmon in me trying to run upstream


--Bert Lahr (as Skip Owens) in Ship Ahoy

The Commander: You must come up and launch with me sometime.


--Bert Lahr (as The Commander) in Meet the People

Cowardly Lion: Come on, get up and fight, ya shivering junkyard! Put your hands up, ya lopsided bag o' hay!


--Bert Lahr (as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) in The Wizard of Oz

Zeke: [to pigs] Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.


--Bert Lahr (as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) in The Wizard of Oz

Zeke: It's a twister! It's a twister!


--Bert Lahr (as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) in The Wizard of Oz

Zeke: Listen, kid. Are you gonna try and let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo ya'? She ain't nothing to be afraid of. Have a little courage, that's all.
Dorothy: I'm not afraid of her.
Zeke: Well then, next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do.


--Bert Lahr (as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) in The Wizard of Oz