Artemas Ward quotes
-
“The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.”
-- Artemas WardSource : "Fourth of July Oration" by Artemas Ward,
-
“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.”
-- Artemas WardSource : London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.
-
-
“Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!”
-- Artemas Ward -
“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.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.”
-- Artemas Ward -
-
“We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.”
-- Artemas Ward -
“One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.”
-- Artemas WardSource : "Artemus Ward's Lecture on the Mormons". Book edited by Edward P. Hingston, 1882.
-
You may also like:
-
Charles Farrar Browne
Writer -
Charles Lee
Commissioned officer -
Ed Markey
United States Senator -
Henry Knox
Former United States Secretary of War -
Joseph Warren
Doctor -
Lalla Ward
Actress -
Thomas Gage
Military Officer