American author and humorist (1862-1922)
Please do not steal my kitchen stove. If you need a stove steal something else like the telephone book or that empty bottle of Woostershire Sauce standing on the parlor mantelpiece with the daisy in it, and sell them to buy a new stove with the money. I've had that stove for ten years and it has only just learned how to cook and it would be very annoying to me to have to get a new one and have to teach it how I like my potatoes done.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
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Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad
In the machinery of our existence there are probably more human cogs involved, which require our own individual attention, than in any other known mechanism.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
From Pillar to Post
I do not know that it would be a good thing for any public speaker ever to approach the emergent hour with entire assurance and utterly calloused nerves. Such a condition might well bespeak an indifference to the work in hand which would result either in a purely mechanical delivery, or one so careless as to destroy the effect of the lecturer's most valuable asset -- a sympathetic personality.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
From Pillar to Post
By some the harbor ne'er is won,
Despite the journey well begun;
The storm besets, and ruin lies
Where yesterday were fairest skies.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
"The Voyage", Songs of Cheer
From earth, and sky, and sea,
Let cheer come unto me,
And mirth, and tenderness,
And all the things that bless,
That I may pass them on to those
Who suffer woes;
Not keep them for mine own.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
"The Gifts Divine", Songs of Cheer
To take things as they be --
Thet's my philosophy.
No use to holler, mope, or cuss --
If they was changed they might be wuss.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
"A Philosopher", Songs of Cheer