Arthur Guiterman Quotes

• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Failure, Learning, Errors

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• First dentistry was painless.
  Then bicycles were chainless,
  Carriages were horseless,
  And many laws enforceless.
  Next cookery was fireless,
  Telegraphy was wireless,
  Cigars were nicotineless,
  And coffee caffeineless.
  Soon oranges were seedless,
  The putting green was weedless,
  The college boy was hatless,
  The proper diet fatless.
  New motor roads are dustless,
  The latest steel is rustless,
  Our tennis courts are sodless,
  Our new religion--godless.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Coffee, Boys, College

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• So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Thanksgiving, Song, Heart

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• Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

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  Motivational, Thinking, Mind

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• In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Football, Fall

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Evil, Goodness, Harder

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• God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Climbing, Giving, Hills

  Arthur Guiterman (1918). “The Mirthful Lyre”

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• Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Communication, Language, Greetings

  A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'

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• He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Education, Knowledge, Knows

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• What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Nature, Rose, Thorns

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• No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Liars, Government, Reform

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• The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Leadership, Men, Criticism

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Loss, Sight

  Arthur Guiterman (1915). “The Laughing Muse”

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• Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Sake, Bones

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• When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Death, Dumb, World

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• It takes a bee to get the honey out

  Arthur Guiterman

  Honey, Bees, Honey Bee

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Love, May, Porcupines

  "A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets".

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• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mean, Night, Bunk

  Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

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• Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

  Arthur Guiterman

  Tongue, Artistic, Cold

  Arthur Guiterman (1929). “Song and laughter”

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• Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Sex, Science, Complexes

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• God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Climbing, May, Tire

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Chips, Ability, Carpenter

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Flower, Cities, People

  Arthur Guiterman, “Our Suburb”

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• Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Vanity, Deer, Donkey

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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