H.g. Bohn Quotes & Sayings

Good is good, but better carrieth it. — Henry George Bohn

Every dog is a lion at home. — Henry George Bohn

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. — Henry George Bohn

He who commences many things finishes but few. — Henry George Bohn

Few there are that will endure a true friend. — Henry George Bohn

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. — Henry George Bohn

Every potter praises his own pot. — Henry George Bohn

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo. — Donna De Varona

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians. — Henry George Bohn

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general. — Henry George Bohn

On paper curiously shaped
Scribblers to-day of every sort,
In verses Valentines ycled'd
To Venus chime their annual court.
I too will swell the motley throng,
And greet the all auspicious day,
Whose privilege permits my song
My love this secret to convey. — Henry George Bohn

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn

An inch in a man's nose is much. — Henry George Bohn

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. — Henry George Bohn

He preacheth patience that never knew pain. — Henry George Bohn

He who has good health is young. — Henry George Bohn

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. — Henry George Bohn

He who knows himself best esteems himself least. — Henry George Bohn

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. — Henry George Bohn

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. — Henry George Bohn

Good luck reaches farther than long arms. — Henry George Bohn

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. — Henry George Bohn

The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears. — Henry George Bohn

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You'll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive. — Peter Golenbock

If on creation's morn the king of heaven
To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers. — Henry George Bohn

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him — Henry George Bohn

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. — Henry George Bohn

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. — Henry George Bohn

Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right. — Henry George Bohn

Give and spend And God will send. — Henry George Bohn