Quotes by George Dennison Prentice

“When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, its pretty certain that she has his”

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

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

“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”

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

“A friend you have to buy wont be worth what you pay for him.”

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

“A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”

“Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.”

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.

What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isnt much better than tedious disease.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.