12 Quotes by George Dennison Prentice

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings 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.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

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