Arthur Brisbane famous quotes

03-23-2025

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Friendship #Good Friend #May
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Opportunity #Rabbits #Gone
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Solitude #Crowds #Hours
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Positive #Regret #Useless
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Use #Time Management #Odd
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Eye #Writing #Needs
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Education #Years #Four
[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Teaching #Men #Snakes
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Savages #Refusal #Characteristics
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Writing #Thinking #People
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Mirrors #Newspapers #Reflecting
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Death #Want #Foolish
Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Ideas #Peg
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Hard Work #Opportunity #Men
Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Time #Men #Chance
While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Men #Way #Fool
Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Use #Thousand
Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Life #Gone #Possibility

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