Edgar Albert Guest

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    “Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
    But he with a chuckle replied
    That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
    Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.”
    —Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)

    “All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
    —Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)

    “It ain’t home t’ ye, though it be the palace of a king,
    Until somehow yer soul is sort o’ wrapped round everything.”
    —Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)

    “Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
    That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.”
    —Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)