George Horace Lorimer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
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“Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
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“True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.”
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“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.”
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“Give fools the first and women the last word.”
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“There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.”
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“A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.”
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“You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.”
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“Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.”
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“Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.”
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“When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.”
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“If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.”
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“The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.”
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“Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.”
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“Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.”
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“When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.”
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“A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.”
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“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”
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“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.”
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“If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.”
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“A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.”
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“The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.”
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“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”
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“Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.”
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“The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.”
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“Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.”
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“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.”
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“It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.”
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“You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.”
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“There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.”
-- George Horace Lorimer
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