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
men good-man secret
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
book men brain
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
giving lasts fool
Give fools the first and women the last word.
lying world lost
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
men animal hands
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
men asks knows
Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
lying believe men
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.
men two might
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.