40 Quotes by George D. Prentice

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades.

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

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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.