D
Contents of D:
(1819—1897)
U.S. journalist
I don't believe in ghosts, but I've been afraid of them all my life.
(1809—1882)
British scientist
It is a cursed evil to any man to become so absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
(1834—1928)
U.S. politician
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
(1834—1928)
U.S. politician
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
(1834—1928)
U.S. politician, at an 1881 New England Society meeting in New York
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
(1857—1938)
U.S. attorney
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
(1857—1938)
U.S. attorney
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
(1857—1938)
U.S. attorney
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.