Herbert V. Prochnow Quotations

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

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

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

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 a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

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

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

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

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

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

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

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.