I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



Excelsior.

It may not be generally known that the young man who carried the banner with the strange device was lucky to die when he did. Had he eventually reached the summit which he sought he would have discovered to his great dismay that he merely constituted the 29th division in the annual outing of the Excelsior Marching and Chowder Club.

——Heywood Broun, “The Excelsior Movement.”