Arthur Brisbane Quotes

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.