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
check good money sure
It's 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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
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
reading good-man use
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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.
forgiving succeed failing
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
love-is age blind
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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.
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.
sermons sinner
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
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.
knowing mind littles
If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
two world sin
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
love-is few-words sometimes
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
lesson-learned muzzle lessons
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.