GEORGE HORACE LORIMER QUOTES
American journalist & author (1867-1937)
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
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.
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Old Gorgon Graham
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
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Old Gorgon Graham
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Give fools the first and women the last word.
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son