Quotes by Laurence Manning

“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.””

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.””

“The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.””

“I was interrupted in the heyday of this soliloquy, with a voice which I took to be of a child, which complained “it could not get out.””

“There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.””

“What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.””