George D. Prentice
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.Collection: Kindness
There is a realm where the rainbow never fadesCollection: Rainbow
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Lying
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.Collection: Self
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.Collection: Thinking
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.Collection: Father
We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.Collection: Tolerance
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.Collection: Men
In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.Collection: New York
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.Collection: Witty
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.Collection: Children
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.Collection: Writing
A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.Collection: Funny
Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.Collection: Debt Free
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.Collection: Prejudice
Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.Collection: People
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.Collection: Courage
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.Collection: Writing
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.Collection: Men
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.Collection: War
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.Collection: Smoking
Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.Collection: Inspirational
A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Men
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.Collection: Joy
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.Collection: Funny
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.Collection: Loss
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.Collection: Sleep
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.Collection: Pins
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.Collection: Men
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.Collection: Truth
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.Collection: Marijuana
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.Collection: Time
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Men
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.Collection: Habit
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!Collection: Time