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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