Arnold Henry Glasow (1905–98) was a humorist and a successful American businessman whose famous adages appeared in major publications.
Glasow was born in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, and graduated from Ripon College. Following the Great Depression, Glasow moved to Freeport, Illinois, and started a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses all over the country. He encouraged his customers to use his magazine as their “house organ” to send to their customers.
At age 92, he published his first book, Glasow’s Gloombusters, using one of the many titles he put to his work during his career. He was a regular contributor to the Reader’s Digest humor pages.
READ: Works by Arnold Glasow
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
—Arnold Glasow
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
One of the chief objects of education should be to widen the windows through which we view the world.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Education
There is no reward for finding fault.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Faults
The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: The Future, Future
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ignorance
The big problem is not the haves and the have-nots—it’s the give-nots.
—Arnold Glasow
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
—Arnold Glasow
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
—Arnold Glasow
Statesmen stand out because politicians are as alike as peas.
—Arnold Glasow
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
Make your life a mission—not an intermission.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: One liners, Duty
Two can give as cheap as one.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Giving
People are happier at Yuletime because they take the milk of human kindness out of the deep freeze.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Holidays
The business world reaches out for and rewards leaders who can relegate and delegate.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Leadership
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Weight
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
—Arnold Glasow
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
—Arnold Glasow
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
—Arnold Glasow
The better part of maturity is knowing your goals.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Aging
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Laughter, One liners
It’s only by the hard blows of adverse fortune that character is tooled.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Character
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Fear, One liners, Anxiety
Conceit is the quicksand of success.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Pride
Most good resolutions start too late and end too soon.
—Arnold Glasow
You can’t shut out the world without shutting yourself in.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: World
Laugh to forget, but don’t forget to laugh.
—Arnold Glasow
Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be listening.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Trouble
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Labor
Reprove privately, praise publicly.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise