Charles Farrar Browne citáty

„Pesimista si stěžuje na nepříznivý vítr; optimista čeká, až se změní na příznivý; realista přizpůsobí plachty.“

—  Charles Farrar Browne

„Buďme skromní a žijme, jak nám kapsa stačí, i kdybychom si na to měli vypůjčit.“

—  Charles Farrar Browne

„He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."“

—  Artemus Ward

Moses, the Sassy.

„It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.“

—  Artemus Ward

„When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.“

—  Artemus Ward

„It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.“

—  Artemus Ward

„Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrer [sic] money to do it with.“

—  Artemus Ward

Science and Natural History, Letter VII http://books.google.com/books?id=DYdEAAAAcAAJ&q=%22let+us+all+be%22+%22and+live+within+our+means,+even+if+we+have+to+borrer+money+to+do+it+with%22&pg=PA165#v=onepage to Punch, part of the Artemus Ward in London series (22 October 1866).

„I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.“

—  Artemus Ward

Artemus Ward, His Travels http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf483&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0, Lecture (1865).

„I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.“

—  Artemus Ward

Fourth of July Oration.

„…their eyes sparkled like diminds, their cheeks was like roses, and they was charmin enuff to make a man throw stuns at his granmother, if they axed him to.“

—  Artemus Ward

The Shakers.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)

„They cherish his mem'ry, and them as sell picturs of his birthplace, etc., make it prof'tible cherishin' it.“

—  Artemus Ward

At the Tomb of Shakespeare.

„Did you ever have the measels, and if so, how many?“

—  Artemus Ward

Artemus Ward, His Travels, The Census.

„The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste.“

—  Artemus Ward

Woman's Rights.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)

„N. B. This is rote sarcastikul.“

—  Artemus Ward

A Visit to Brigham Young.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)

„The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen.“

—  Artemus Ward

A Mormon Romance, ch. 4.

„The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop over. G. Washington never slopt over.“

—  Artemus Ward

Fourth of July Oration.

„The fack can't be no longer disgised that a Krysis is onto us.“

—  Artemus Ward

The Crisis.
Artemus Ward, His Book http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Weaf482&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0 (1862)

„Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?“

—  Artemus Ward

Moses, the Sassy.

„The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.“

—  Artemus Ward

London Punch Letters, No. 5 (1866).