George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimerwas an American journalist and author. He is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers, e.g. Jack London...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
CountryUnited States of America
procrastination putting-things-off impossible
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
office enemy should
A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
buying-things forget good-things
Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not
love-is few-words sometimes
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
love-is age blind
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
letting-go men stills
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
dog games rabbits
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
humble men differences
It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
two world sin
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
procrastination letters alphabet
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
sermons sinner
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
mistake men hands
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
land want firsts
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
dog years long
Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.