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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1841 |
| AUTHOR: | Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) |
| QUOTATION: | Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | EDGAR A. GUEST, “It Couldn’t Be Done,” stanza 1, Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest, p. 285 (1934). |
| SUBJECTS: | Trying |
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