First 100 Years Hardest (1918); Genius & Inspiration & Perspiration (1898, 1901)

Sat Feb 28 17:58:09 UTC 2004

   Just checking a few more of Gregory Titelman's RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF
AMERICAN POPULAR PROVERBS AND SAYINGS with Newspaperarchive.
   Titleman has 1928 for "the first one hundred years are the hardest" and
1914 for "genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration." The AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS gives this to Thomas Edison,
c. 1903.

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THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST

   Perhaps coined by the famous cartoonist Briggs in 1918?

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Bridgeport Telegram - 7/29/1918
...Moran comedy will also be shown. The FIRST HUNDRED YEARS Are the Hardest
Drawn for The.....AMBiTrorJ OP LIFE TIME is I'M AT Ti-tE VERY FIRST IN THE IT'S
I FIGURE, LOST 5ooo GOLF.....1 "Dolly's Vacation." >T TAKS.S ABOUT YEARS To
LEARN To THE ot-D eve OM THE MY.....speeches were mudo. The speakers were FIRST
Selectman Cheny, B. McCarthv and Kev P..
Bridgeport, Connecticut Monday, July 29, 1918  539 k
Pg. 7, col. 2 comic:
_The First Hundred Years Are the Hardest_
Drawn for The Telegram by Briggs

Bridgeport Telegram - 8/6/1918
...PREMIER'S WORD TO ALL BRITAIN The FIRST HUNDRED YEARS Are the Hardest
Drawn for The.....In September and of I tnrer, was 70 YEARS old last SaturHilsi
number are new.....age is its guarantee. For more than thirty YEARS it has been
in constant use for the.....and which has been in use for over 30 YEARS, has
borne the Signature of Chas, H..
Bridgeport, Connecticut Tuesday, August 06, 1918  593 k

Bridgeport Telegram - 8/19/1918
...FIRST Inning Allow Yanks to Win The FIRST HUNDRED YEARS Are the Hardest
Drawn for The.....i Slin-wood hy h'irst. on oil' L', (iff 1', FIRST (nt
JJrldKeport I. on liases, New York.....lUli r'oi'CillKI'IKI'SIK, N. Y., t S.-Two
HUNDRED and s-'veatv horses are catered in.....Iron li'tniii" at J Hilnlh. Braves
Capture FIRST, 3-1; Cubs Take Second, 3-1 CHIC.UiO..
Bridgeport, Connecticut Monday, August 19, 1918  601 k

Manitoba Morning Free Press - 8/24/1918
...trouble Is a service station Job. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE HARDEST
Considerably.....can afire, If wo did not let them huvo It FIRST, you understnnd
why an airplane la.....has been in the accessory business thirteen YEARS, which
makes many of his friends wonder.....company, Mr. Nearing has for the past
six YEARS been in charge of sales for N. J..
Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday, August 24, 1918  893 k
Pg. 13, cols. 4-5 headline:
_THE FIRST HUNDRED_
_YEARS ARE HARDEST_

Bridgeport Telegram - 9/3/1918
...SPECIALISTS BLDG. NOBLE -162 The FIRST HUNDRED YEARS Are the Hardest Drawn
for The.....Before Mammoth Crowd at Hartford Attend FIRST Charter Oak Races
Walter Cox Piloting.....World Series 'tho lend securerl In recent YEARS by tho
American League teams Is.....which failed to finish in either of atho FIRST
two heats because of. enSeine trouble..
Bridgeport, Connecticut Tuesday, September 03, 1918  653 k

Coshocton Tribune - 2/5/1919
...finds. In the new subway. That t.hp FIRST, HUNDRED YEARS. Arc tho.
hardest. LIFE IS.....And .give way lo twitching. JJlte f did at FIRST. CJoinE down
town. In the now subway.....and says, his manner stern and grim, up a HUNDRED
bucks. Mechanics, men of wondrous.....have be local affairs as they were forty
YEARS ago and national and even international..
Coshocton, Ohio Wednesday, February 05, 1919  982 k
(Pg. 4, col. 1.  The syndicated "New York Day-By-Day," by O. O.
McIntyre--ed.)
Going down town
In the new subway
Is just as easy
But one finds
In the new subway
That the first hundred years
Are the hardest.

Appleton Post Crescent - 4/20/1920
...you wish. Cartoonist Briggs says "the FIRST HUNDRED YEARS are the
hardest." and so be it.....down wealth and punish the rich. HOOVER'S FIRST Sl'OXSOR
The New York World, the FIRST.....down. Our savace forefathers, thousands of
YEARS ago. dlnod on wild cabbage. Inose hond.....conductor le

Bedford Gazette - 10/6/1922
...raised over the question whether "the FIRST HUNDRED YEARS are the longest"
or "the FIRST.....We hazard the '-opinion that, the FIRST HUNDRED YEARS are
the most plausible.....BELL TELEPHONE ENGINEER DR. BELL MADF THE FIRST WIRELESS
TELEPHONE APPARATUS Having.....HUNDRED YEARS the hardest..
Bedford, Pennsylvania Friday, October 06, 1922  930 k

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GENIUS & INSPIRATION & PERSPIRATION

   Fred Shapiro has probably added some sweat to this.
   I think this makes porn star Ron Jeremy the great genius of our age, but I
digress.

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Daily Herald - 5/18/1898
...says Thomas A. EDISON. and he adds: for GENIUS being inspired, INSPIRATION
is ia most.....she would ii IbC like smiling: so we lt; Book Buyers. During
the recent book sale In.....cases another word for PERSPIRATION. As the
foremost example in the.....world of one type of GENIUS. Mr. EDISON is aa authority
on tbe..
Delphos, Ohio Wednesday, May 18, 1898  909 k

Idaho Daily Statesman - 5/6/1901
...drlvthe session of the International Mining PERSPIRATION." People who take
apply to the.....as fate." made a part heredf. And you are GENIUS is another
name for hard TJvork.....and answer said complaint as i.s 1 per cent
INSPIRATION and 99 H. I. M'ELFRESH, held in.....that if you fail to aprhonest work.'
says EDISON, pear..
Boise, Idaho Monday, May 06, 1901  956 k

Gazette And Bulletin - 1/25/1913
...laziness Mr: wid. "Talk about GENIUS being PERSPIRATION instead of
INSPIRATION Why, when.....But Ws friend prevented rwn. "The same Text Book, .hymns
and is what the big ad. said.....reading fioiu tli0 Bible andfrom the text book,
"Science and Health With Key to the.....the Century club In New York about a
lazy GENIUS. He la..
Williamsport, Pennsylvania Saturday, January 25, 1913  820 k

Iowa City Citizen - 10/21/1918
...of Edison's success. "GENIUS is 2 per cent INSPIRATION and per cent
PERSPIRATION.....The story of the life of this remarkable GENIUS reads like a
romance, yet his.....Recreation, the final triumph of the Edison GENIUS in the line
of the perfect..
Iowa City, Iowa Monday, October 21, 1918  797 k

Washington Post - 5/10/1915
...IB 1 per rent INSPIRATION and 99 [KM cent PERSPIRATION. This, in turn,
'cuds the New.....will succeed in bringing forth a GENIUS. But the kindred truth
that GENIUS has.....there may be cases in which no amount of PERSPIRATION
.....a desire to partake of the evi dence. GENIUS AND WORK. reci'iit meeting to
(lo..
Washington, District Of Columbia   Monday, May 10, 1915  841 k

Lancaster Daily Eagle - 9/18/1917
...10 -If' A. [Says GENIUS is 95 Peicant PERSPIRATION and 5 Percent
INSPIRATION.....of what. Thomas Iv Rd recently said: "GENIUS is fir. ceftt.
PERSPIRATION and five.....for his supporting cast and working staff "PERSPIRATION never
harmed a healthy smiled..
Lancaster, Ohio Tuesday, September 18, 1917  615 k

Coshocton Daily Age - 12/19/1903
...Sir Arthur Sullivan that INSPIRATION is PERSPIRATION.' I don't believe in
the old.....bear more certainly the marks of real GENIUS than his maglnficent
and mystic music.....as much on stick-at-ltlve ness, as on INSPIRATION, then
other toilers in all the..
Coshocton, Ohio Saturday, December 19, 1903  743 k

Stevens Point Daily Journal - 3/29/1904
...X. Y., Feb. 17? 1900. GENIUS is partly INSPIRATION, but mostly
PERSPIRATION. Kdison.....often remarked that the children of a great GENIUS seldom
exhibit corresponding powers..
Stevens Point, Wisconsin Tuesday, March 29, 1904  858 k

Sandusky Register - 2/11/1911
...of his remark that GENIUS is per cent, INSPIRATION aud 98 per cen
PERSPIRATION. BODY..
Sandusky, Ohio Saturday, February 11, 1911  680 k

Iowa City Citizen - 8/20/1917
...the price of Hie GENIUS and two thirds of INSPIRATION is PERSPIRATION. The
same is true..
Iowa City, Iowa Monday, August 20, 1917  752 k

Indianapolis Star - 10/15/1916
...it Is true tjiat 'GENIUS Is 95 per cont PERSPIRATION and only C per cent
INSPIRATION.....1 have kept a memorandum of all facts I my book on 'The
Artificial Waterways of the..
Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, October 15, 1916  923 k

Elyria Chronicle - 8/27/1907
...Homer Bates in Cantcry. NUG3ETS. GENIUS Is INSPIRATION. Talent Is
PERSPIRATION. Do not..
Elyria, Ohio Tuesday, August 27, 1907  779 k

Lime Springs Sun - 11/10/1904
...Edison says that GENIUS is partly INSPIRATION, but moatly PERSPIRATION.
Gold..
Lime Springs, Iowa Thursday, November 10, 1904  442 k