John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.
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“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Soldier: Hey colonel, I got me a prisoner. What should I do with him?
Col. John Marlowe: Spank him.”
—John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)
“Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self- seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.... Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)