Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes to Explore
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
Hanya Yanagihara
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
Gary Hume
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
Bette Midler
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I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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When I was a boy I was my father.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
Auguste Renoir
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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
Daniel Johns
Silverchair
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That old boot-camp process. It was two weeks, but it felt like six months.
Derek Luke
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
Francis Bacon
