Henry George Bohn Quotes

#1. He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Henry George Bohn

#2. I clicked on the link, which showed a picture of a reed-thin blond woman with an artfully tousled chignon smiling as she stood

Jojo Moyes

#3. Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

Henry George Bohn

#4. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Henry George Bohn

#5. Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Henry George Bohn

#6. Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Henry George Bohn

#7. Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

Henry George Bohn

#8. A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

Henry George Bohn

#9. Few there are that will endure a true friend.

Henry George Bohn

#10. He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

Henry George Bohn

#11. Give and spend And God will send.

Henry George Bohn

#12. An inch in a man's nose is much.

Henry George Bohn

#13. On paper curiously shaped
Scribblers to-day of every sort,
In verses Valentines ycled'd
To Venus chime their annual court.
I too will swell the motley throng,
And greet the all auspicious day,
Whose privilege permits my song
My love this secret to convey.

Henry George Bohn

#14. I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

Sean Pertwee

#15. Every potter praises his own pot.

Henry George Bohn

#16. If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him

Henry George Bohn

#17. Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

Henry George Bohn

#18. A young trooper should have an old horse.

Henry George Bohn

#19. Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Henry George Bohn

#20. Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Henry George Bohn

#21. A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. Even when presented with evidence of my own productivity I think that the people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Lena Dunham

#23. He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Henry George Bohn

#24. Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.

Henry George Bohn

#25. The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

Henry George Bohn

#26. He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

Henry George Bohn

#27. The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Daniel Dennett

#28. He who commences many things finishes but few.

Henry George Bohn

#29. Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Henry George Bohn

#30. Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

Henry George Bohn

#31. He who has good health is young.

Henry George Bohn

#32. Every dog is a lion at home.

Henry George Bohn

#33. Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Henry George Bohn