Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

George Horace Lorimer

A business man’s conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

Animal

Men

Talking

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

Enemy

Office

Should

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

Lesson Learned

Lessons

Muzzle

A man’s got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

Girl

Jobs

Men

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

Bees

Men

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I’ve found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they’re generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

Fun

Men

Work

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.

People

Special

Thinking

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearance

Deceiving

Long

As the Christian’s sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel’s whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

Christian

Song

Sweet

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Noble

Principles

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Alphabet

Animal

Appearance

Apples

Asking

Bees

Believe

Blind

Body

Book

Brain

Buying Things

Calling

Can Do

Chance

Choices

Christian

Climate

Clubs

Coats

College

College Life

Culture

Cutting

Deceiving

Delivery

Differences

Distance

Doe

Dog

Easter

Eggs

Enemy

Energy

Eye

Facts

Failing

Few Words

Firsts

Flattering

Fool

Forget

Forgiving

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Games

Girl

Giving

Good Man

Good Things

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Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

George Horace Lorimer

A business man’s conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

A man’s got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

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.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

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