Quotes by George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
– George Dennison Prentice
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
– George Dennison Prentice
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
– George Dennison Prentice
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.
– George Dennison Prentice
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
– George Dennison Prentice
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
– George Dennison Prentice
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
– George Dennison Prentice
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
– George Dennison Prentice