Herbert V. Prochnow Quotes

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.

We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.