Arthur Guiterman famous quotes

03-28-2025

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Failure #Errors #Admitting
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Thanksgiving #Song #Heart
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Dog #Loss #Sight
Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Greetings #Indigestion
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Knowledge
God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Climbing #Giving #Hills
A Man consumes the Time you make him Wait In thinking of your Faults-so don't be late!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Thinking Of You #Men #Waiting
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Vanity #Deer #Donkey
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Chips #Ability #Carpenter
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Evil #Goodness #Harder
When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Death #Dumb #World
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Deer #Quills
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Mean #Night #Maps
It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Flower #Cities #People
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Tongue #Artistic #Cold
Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Sex #Science
The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Love #May #Porcupines
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Leadership #Men #Criticism
The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Rain #Cat #Sneezing
Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Motivational #Thinking #Mind
In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Football #Fall
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Thorns #Sandals
First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless, And coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy was hatless, The proper diet fatless. New motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religion--godless.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Coffee #College #Boys
It takes a bee to get the honey out
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Honey #Bees
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Nature #Rose #Thorns
No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Liars #Government #Reform

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