George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
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If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
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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 bestowed is money invested.
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A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
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As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.
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What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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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.
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When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
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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 make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
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There'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 he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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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 or loses his courage.
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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
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And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
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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 these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.