I Wish I’d Said That.

Dr. Boli’s Occasional Journal of Quotations.



Artemus Ward on the Ballot.

I’ve no objection to ev’ry intelligent man votin’ if he wants to. It’s a pleasant amoosement, no doubt; but there is those whose igrance is so dense and loathsum that they shouldn’t be trustid with a ballit any more’n one of my trained serpunts should be trusted with a child to play with.

——Artemus Ward, London Punch Letters.