George Horace Lorimer

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“Love is a mighty pretty thing, but it's a mighty expensive thing, too.”

“The man who can make the most of the stuff that's been thrown away is the man who's going to make the most money.”

“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.”

“The college graduate is seen as a finished product; the apprentice is not.”

“The common-sense man is the man who knows how to use the brains of others.”

“It is one thing to have a good deal to say, and another to know when you have said it.”

“Some men are like hens, who cannot see an egg without announcing it to the world with a cackle.”

“It is not what a man says, but what he does, that counts.”

“The first thing you know, you have a son of your own, and you are worrying about him. It's a queer world.”

“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.”

“Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.”

“There's no telling what a man can do when he's properly mounted.”

“A man's got to lose a little time getting his feet on the ground, but he's got to make it up by hustling when the running's good.”