41+ George D. Prentice Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best George D. Prentice quotes and sayings.

Top 10 George D. Prentice Quotes

1. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
2. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
3. A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
4. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades
5. Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
6. Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
7. He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
8. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
9. It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
10. Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

George D. Prentice Short Quotes

• Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
• Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.
• A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
• Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
• A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
• Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
• A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
• Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

George D. Prentice Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 D. Prentice

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice

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 D. Prentice

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

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

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

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

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. — George D. Prentice

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

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. — George D. Prentice

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

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

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice

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