Quotes from George Horace Lorimer

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.