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. I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

Asif Kapadia

#5. Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

V.S. Pritchett

#6. A novel is a mirror travelling down the road.

Stendhal

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

George Dennison Prentice

#8. 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

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

George Dennison Prentice

#10. If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

Sam Kinison

#11. I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there? Who's there?" So people that were from Indiana were the people that said "Who's there?" But what do I know? I don't read or interact with people outside the Internet.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. 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

#13. Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

James Randolph Adams

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

George Dennison Prentice

#16. Everything is relative except for the absolute.

Dieter Geruschkat

#17. You shouldn't ask a question until you are sure you want to hear the answer.

Eraldo Banovac

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

George Dennison Prentice

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

George Dennison Prentice