George Dennison Prentice Quotes

#1. 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 Dennison Prentice

#2. Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

George Dennison Prentice

#3. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

George Dennison Prentice

#4. Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

George Dennison Prentice

#5. 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 Dennison Prentice

#6. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

George Dennison Prentice

#7. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Dennison Prentice

#8. A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

George Dennison Prentice

#9. A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

George Dennison Prentice

#10. When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

George Dennison Prentice

#11. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

George Dennison Prentice