Sayings of Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1874

Sayings of Spurgeon.

SPURGEON sententiously expresses a number of thoughts “worth remembering,” in the following appropriate sentences, which he publishes as advice gratis:—

Nothing is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps but a small stock within.

Do not choose your friend by his looks; handsome shoes often pinch the feet.

Do not be fond of compliments; remember “thank you pussy, and thank you pussy,” killed the cat.

Don’t believe those who talk the most, for mewing cats are seldom good mousers.

By no means, put yourself in another person’s power; if you put your thumb between two grinders, they are very apt to bite.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it; and make sure that it means no more than it says.

Don’t go to law unless you have nothing to lose; lawyers’ houses are built on fool’s heads.

Put no dependence on the label of a bag, and count money after your own kind.

In any business, never wade into water where you can’t see the bottom.

See the bag opened before you buy what is in it, for he who trades in the dark asks to be cheated.