101 Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.