Chauncey Depew famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Would Be #Gone #Possibility
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Motivation #Firsts #Steps
There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Stories #World #Hundred
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Home #Care #Dinner
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Nice #Taffy #Alive
As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Teeth #Dieting #Half
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 name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Drama #Names #Pages
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
-- Chauncey Depew

#Beautiful #Home #Elderly
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Lying #Party #Promise
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Government #United States #Lawyer
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Father #Rocks #Plymouth Rock
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Men #Naughty #Thinking
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 for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Home #Clouds #Discovery
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Fitness #Exercise #Acting
A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
-- Chauncey Depew

#Witty #Illustration #Stories

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