Chauncey Depew Quotes
- The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
- A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
- It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
- The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
- If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
- "What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
- Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the…
- As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.
- It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
- My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is…
- There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.
- A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
- The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
- I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
- When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty…
- I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
- A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
- Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of…