George Horace Lorimer Quotes

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• Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead…
• You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and…
• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
• When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
• In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
• The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help…
• What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
• I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a…
• Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten,…
• Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously…
• The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our…
• Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all…
• ThereÂ’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that…

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