All occasions Quote by George D. Prentice Download Open image “He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.” — George D. Prentice ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare All occasions Collectors Composure Firsts Occasions Rate Wit
“Huh. The Collector is here. That should make for an interesting bit of bidding.” “The Collector?” I asked. “What’s that?” “Not what. Who. His… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors. — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
“The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
