American author and humorist (1862-1922)
It made me excessively angry to be called a blooming Yank. I am a Yankee, and I have been known to bloom, but I can't stand having a low-class Britisher apply that term to me as if it were an opprobrious thing to be.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
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
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
Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad
As Eve was the only cook in all Christendom at the time, the idea of not coming home to dinner never occurred to Adam.
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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
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