George Horace Lorimer Quotes

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there’s a heap of choice in the cuts.

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.

It isn’t what a man’s got in the bank, but what he’s got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

You’ve got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Those who succeed can’t forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can’t forgive him for being a success.

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn’t always convenient to meet, but if you don’t make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you’re ready to act, and then you won’t need it.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.

There?s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he?s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

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