Dennison Quotes & Sayings

Divine love loves that it may bless and do good. You ought to love not because it pleases you, but because it blesses them. — A.B. Simpson

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. — George Dennison Prentice

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here. — Robert Sheckley

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. — George Dennison Prentice

Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built — Dennison Berwick

She had experienced the pleasures of virgin and prostitute, of slave and queen, albeit more slave than queen. — Paulo Coelho

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. — George Dennison Prentice

Mistakes when we are young is how we become wise when we are old. — Brad Dennison

Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I'm writing. — Haruki Murakami

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. — George Dennison Prentice

The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm. — Walter Traill Dennison

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. — George Dennison Prentice

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. — George Dennison Prentice

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation. — John Locke

You have to take care of freedom. Can't be afraid of it, like Fromm said, like MacLeish said. Can't be too scared or too bold. Like a plant, you had to water it and weed it and keep it safe from frosts. And we lost it, somehow. We let the wrong ideas do the talking. We liked the easy short-term too much, and couldn't commit to the difficult long-term. We even stopped breeding, toward the end there, didn't we? Our birth rate went below replacement level. America was worth exploiting, but it wasn't worth leaving for anyone else, anyone who came after. Maybe evolution just shook its head and let us clear ourselves off the map. Mother Nature doesn't think much of life that isn't willing to replicate. — Algor X. Dennison

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. — George Dennison Prentice

Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound. — George M. Dennison

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. — George Dennison Prentice

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. — George Dennison Prentice

He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war. — Brandon Sanderson

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George Dennison Prentice

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. — J. B. Bury

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him. — George Dennison Prentice