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 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. George Horace Lorimer land want firsts When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. George Horace Lorimer wealth calling asking It is 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 you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. George Horace Lorimer 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. George Horace Lorimer good you money lost