George Dennison Prentice Quotes
"Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: People, Debt)
"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Truth)
"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
(Related: People, Man, Pen)
"A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point."
- George Dennison Prentice
"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
(Related: Kindness, Pearls, sayings, Witty, Word)
"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
(Related: Hope, Direction, Man, Will, World)
"Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Men, Smoking, Swine)
"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
(Related: People, Children)
"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Men)
"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Friend, Worth)