Quotes from George Dennison Prentice

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

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

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

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