George Horace Lorimer - Old Gorgon Graham (1904)

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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

George Horace Lorimer
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

George Horace Lorimer
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clear and straight and lays bare the fat and the lean; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

George Horace Lorimer
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

George Horace Lorimer
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

George Horace Lorimer
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
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
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

George Horace Lorimer
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

George Horace Lorimer
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.

George Horace Lorimer
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

George Horace Lorimer
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
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

George Horace Lorimer
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

George Horace Lorimer
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.

George Horace Lorimer