Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by George D. Prentice (American Journalist)

George Dennison Prentice (1802–70) was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about a fictional guerrilla “Sue Mundy”, whose activities he used to taunt the Union military commander of the state.

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A friend that you have to buy won’t be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Friends and Friendship, Friendship

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
Topics: Weapon

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
Topics: Dress

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Smoking

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Self-respect, Self-Discovery

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s pretty certain that she has his
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
Topics: Preaching, Being True to Yourself

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Debt

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
George D. 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 D. Prentice

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
George D. Prentice

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Health, Anxiety, Diet

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Prejudice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Truth

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George D. Prentice

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.
George D. Prentice
Topics: Memories

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