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. George Horace Lorimer More Quotes by George Horace Lorimer More Quotes From George Horace Lorimer Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. George Horace Lorimer college-life fool college Theres no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that hes chosen the wrong business is to let him try it. George Horace Lorimer trying giving men 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. George Horace Lorimer energy doe wind What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. George Horace Lorimer clubs meat knowledge 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. George Horace Lorimer gratitude easter song Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us. George Horace Lorimer deceiving appearance long The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. George Horace Lorimer enemy way world Culture is not a matter of a change of climate. George Horace Lorimer climate matter culture And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths. George Horace Lorimer special people thinking 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. George Horace Lorimer merchants men 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. George Horace Lorimer lost lying world When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out. George Horace Lorimer few-words love-is sometimes A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten. George Horace Lorimer muzzle lesson-learned lessons 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 George Horace Lorimer buying-things good-things forget Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is. George Horace Lorimer flattering listening men It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods. George Horace Lorimer distance girl running The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place. George Horace Lorimer right-thing-to-say men world A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. George Horace Lorimer bees men If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament. George Horace Lorimer may men mean Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb. George Horace Lorimer stimulation body should
