Prentice Quotes & Sayings

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. — George D. Prentice

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

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep. — George D. Prentice

Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very sound of terror and the ticking of the clock is a steady reminder of death. — Richard Yates

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

The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force. — Prentice Mulford

The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it. — Prentice Mulford

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness — Prentice Mulford

When it comes to food, the obvious and expected approach for North Americans is to diet, which results in cravings, cheating, and shameful feelings. Diets seldom work for long since they go against the natural tendencies of the body, and in many cases the weight simply returns. But since dieting has been with us for decades now, it is accepted as the social norm. Mme Guiliano's approach, however, is to continue to eat, but to eat in a measured, slower way. This, she shows, achieves greater progress, a more stable, natural approach to weight management without cravings, and is also much easier. — Steve Prentice

Why pizza delivery?" he says. "It makes people happy." Plus, Sugoi's gourmet selection includes deep fried pigs' brains, and I only pick off a few pieces. "Does it make you happy?" says Prentice. It does when I'm crunching deep fried brain. — T.W. Brown

Love yourself and feel worth it. Attend to your joy! — Prentice Mulford

Sally didn't waste any time getting Prentice up to speed. Mister Mikey says we can call Mrs. Evangahlala, Miss Bella and I'm doing the crunchy and smushy bits for dinner. — Kristen Ashley

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it. — Prentice Mulford

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people. — George D. Prentice

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. — George D. Prentice

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power — Prentice Mulford

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out. — Prentice Mulford

Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery. — Prentice Mulford

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force ... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean. — Prentice Mulford

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. — George D. Prentice

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. — George D. Prentice

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

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible. — Prentice Mulford

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past — Prentice Mulford

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,
what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity! — George D. Prentice

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades — George D. Prentice

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. — Prentice Marshall

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing. — Prentice Mulford

Don't let her go. She needs you to save her. She needs her knight in shining armor, not a man who'd let her go. This is twice, Prentice, and you don't even know this is all on you. Twenty years, and it's all YOU. You should have gone to save her the last time and you let her go. This is the same. She isn't leaving you, she has this idea that she's saving you. This is NOT her LEAVING. This is YOU LETTING HER GO — Kristen Ashley

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity. — George D. Prentice

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life. — Prentice Mulford

Keep your mind as much as you can from dwelling on your ailment. Think of strength and power and you will draw it to you. Think of health and you get it. — Prentice Mulford

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. — George D. Prentice

She stopped pushing but declared; Prentice, I know how this works. Sure, she seems fine now. But in fifteen years when she's standing on top of a clocktower with an automatic rifle mowing down innocent bystanders, dont't call ME asking what went wrong. — Kristen Ashley

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

Friendship is like a song, some may be a hit and last forever and some maybe be a waste of time and never to be heard of again — Zoe Prentice

Babs, for all her power, has yet to catch me at it, this thing I call chasing the smash. — Ashley Prentice Norton

To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as to learn to remember. We think of many things every day which it would be more profitable not to think of at all. To be able to forget is to be able to drive away the unseen force (thought) which is injuring us, and change it for a force (or order of thought) to benefit us. — Prentice Mulford

As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape one liked, man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at a thousand beings. But as a wizard he had learned the price of the game, which is the peril of losing one's self, playing away the truth. The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril. Every prentice-sorcerer learns the tale of the wizard Bordger of Way, who delighted in taking bear's shape, and did so more and more often until the bear grew in him and the man died away, and he became a bear, and killed his own little son in the forests, and was hunted down and slain. And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! — Robert Burns

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body. — Prentice Mulford

Life is precious," says Prentice. "Whatever form it takes, however long it lasts. You should do something only you can do." "Chase after screaming crowds while rotting flamboyantly? — T.W. Brown

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it — Prentice Mulford

To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person. — Prentice Mulford

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts. — George D. Prentice

Undoubtedly to some, the idea of giving so much love to self will seem very cold, hard and unmerciful. Still this matter may be seen in a different light, when we find that 'looking out for number one,' as directed by the infinite, is really looking out for number two and is indeed the only way to permanently benefit number two. — Prentice Mulford

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air. — George D. Prentice

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

Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped.
He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety. — Julia Quinn

When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant ... Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance. — Prentice Mulford

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

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality. — George D. Prentice

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. — George D. Prentice

Then he was gone, and Prentice was alone in a silence that rang with all his shrill, unspoken words. He was so alone that the only thing to do was lie back on the bed and roll over and draw up his knees like an unborn baby, staring with dry eyes at a cluster of pink flowers on the wallpaper, knowing he had never been so alone in his life. — Richard Yates

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. — George D. Prentice

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice

They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America's greatest city. — Claire Prentice

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. — George D. Prentice

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. — George D. Prentice

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself. — George D. Prentice

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. — George D. Prentice

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser. — George D. Prentice

There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand. — Prentice Mulford

Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing — Prentice Mulford

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

What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. — George D. Prentice

The life of a Kindle book is a few years, give or take. — Prentice Prefontaine

....the challenge in following childrens' conversational twists is the leading cause of brain-cell loss in mothers. — Candice Speare Prentice

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual. — Prentice Mulford

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice

Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind ... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but I expected better of you. — Iain Banks

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face. — Jim Prentice

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force. — Prentice Mulford

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable. — George D. Prentice

Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have. — Prentice Mulford

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford) — Rhonda Byrne

Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them. — George D. Prentice

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

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo. — George D. Prentice

To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite? — Stephen King

Faith is power to believe and power to see. — Prentice Mulford

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

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice

Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things. — Prentice Mulford

You may be saying: 'I have failed in life and shall always be a failure.' That is because you are ever looking back, living in your failure and thereby bringing to you more failure. Reverse this attitude of mind; work it the other way and live in future success. — Prentice Mulford