George D. Prentice famous quotes

03-28-2025

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
-- George D. Prentice

#Kindness #Vain #Words Of Kindness
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
-- George D. Prentice

#Witty #Kindness #Broken
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
-- George D. Prentice

#Looks #Mouths #Dentist
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
-- George D. Prentice

#Men #Age #Teeth
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
-- George D. Prentice

#Firsts #Wit #Composure
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
-- George D. Prentice

#Children #People
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.
-- George D. Prentice

#Men #Long #Intelligence
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
-- George D. Prentice

#Men #Good Man #Secret
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
-- George D. Prentice

#Writing #Men #People
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
-- George D. Prentice

#New York #Twilight #Cities
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
-- George D. Prentice

#Prejudice #Twins
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
-- George D. Prentice

#Thinking #Profound
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.
-- George D. Prentice

#War #Air #Rivers
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.
-- George D. Prentice

#Tolerance #Favors #Impossible
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 in the air, Are dying to an echo.
-- George D. Prentice

#Time #Echoes #Air
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
-- George D. Prentice

#Naked
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 true feminine beauty as simplicity.
-- George D. Prentice

#Mistake #Thinking #Order
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
-- George D. Prentice

#Mistake #People #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 turn his back on one half of the world.
-- George D. Prentice

#Inspirational Life #Men #Half
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
-- George D. Prentice

#Pay
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 hair out.
-- George D. Prentice

#Men #Hair #Rude
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
-- George D. Prentice

#Men #Smoking #Swine
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
-- George D. Prentice

#Smoking #Tobacco
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
-- George D. Prentice

#People #Use #Credit
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
-- George D. Prentice

#Sleep #Angel #Waking
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
-- George D. Prentice

#Writing #Editing #Punctuation
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
-- George D. Prentice

#Self #Possession
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
-- George D. Prentice

#Funny #Dog #Animal
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
-- George D. Prentice

#Pins #Deals

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