George D. Prentice Quotes

25 quotes in 328 categories

• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
• It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
• It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily…
• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their…
• Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
• Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
• If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
• Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
• A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
• Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes…
• A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
• A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
• Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
• He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
• Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
• When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

Browse George D. Prentice Quotes by Category