Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by J. A. Spender

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist J. A. Spender.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

John Alfred Spender CH was a British journalist and author. He also edited the London newspaper The Westminster Gazette from 1896 to 1922.

British - Journalist | December 23, 1862 - 1942

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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

J. A. Spender

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

J. A. Spender

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.

J. A. Spender

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

J. A. Spender

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

J. A. Spender