Top 82 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. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
George D. Prentice
#3. 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
#4. Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
George D. Prentice
#5. 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
#6. A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
George D. Prentice
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past
Prentice Mulford
#10. Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice
#11. Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things.
Prentice Mulford
#12. There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power
Prentice Mulford
#13. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#14. The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.
Prentice Mulford
#15. In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness
Prentice Mulford
#16. A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force.
Prentice Mulford
#18. 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
#19. Friendship is like a song, some may be a hit and last forever and some maybe be a waste of time and never to be heard of again
Zoe Prentice
#21. Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it.
Prentice Mulford
#22. It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.
Prentice Marshall
#23. She stopped pushing but declared; Prentice, I know how this works. Sure, she seems fine now. But in fifteen years when she's standing on top of a clocktower with an automatic rifle mowing down innocent bystanders, dont't call ME asking what went wrong.
Kristen Ashley
#24. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.
Prentice Mulford
#25. Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.
Jim Prentice
#26. Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
George D. Prentice
#27. Sally didn't waste any time getting Prentice up to speed. Mister Mikey says we can call Mrs. Evangahlala, Miss Bella and I'm doing the crunchy and smushy bits for dinner.
Kristen Ashley
#29. The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.
Prentice Mulford
#30. Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
George D. Prentice
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.
Prentice Mulford
#36. Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind ... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you.
Iain Banks
#38. Why pizza delivery?" he says. "It makes people happy." Plus, Sugoi's gourmet selection includes deep fried pigs' brains, and I only pick off a few pieces. "Does it make you happy?" says Prentice. It does when I'm crunching deep fried brain.
T.W. Brown
#41. Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
George D. Prentice
#42. ....the challenge in following childrens' conversational twists is the leading cause of brain-cell loss in mothers.
Candice Speare Prentice
#43. Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
George D. Prentice
#44. In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
George D. Prentice
#45. 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
#46. You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success.
Prentice Mulford
#47. What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
George D. Prentice
#48. Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.
Prentice Mulford
#49. Life is precious," says Prentice. "Whatever form it takes, however long it lasts. You should do something only you can do." "Chase after screaming crowds while rotting flamboyantly?
T.W. Brown
#50. Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
George D. Prentice
#51. Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.
Prentice Mulford
#54. Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
George D. Prentice
#55. Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
George D. Prentice
#56. Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.
Prentice Mulford
#58. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery.
Prentice Mulford
#59. The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.
Prentice Mulford
#60. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
#61. It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.
George D. Prentice
#64. 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
#66. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
Robert Burns
#67. Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,
what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!
George D. Prentice
#68. To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.
Prentice Mulford
#69. The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.
Prentice Mulford
#70. Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped.
He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety.
Julia Quinn
#71. To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?
Stephen King
#72. When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
George Dennison Prentice
#73. Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.
Prentice Mulford
#74. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice
#75. A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
George D. Prentice
#76. Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force ... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.
Prentice Mulford
#77. They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America's greatest city.
Claire Prentice
#78. 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
#79. Babs, for all her power, has yet to catch me at it, this thing I call chasing the smash.
Ashley Prentice Norton
#80. A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
George D. Prentice
#81. To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.
Prentice Mulford
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