Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Abraham Lincoln

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• I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Good
  • School
  • Friends

• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Trouble
  • Cat
  • Pet

• Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Marriage

• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

• Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • American

• It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • High
  • Coffee

• You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

  

  John Irving

• When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • Different
  • Discipline

• When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Music

• If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Why
  • Interesting

• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Path
  • Moment
  • Understand

• I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.

  

  Mack McLarty
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Illegal

• Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Mother
  • Prayer
  • Baby

• As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • World
  • Relationship

• The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • Words
  • Dealing

• I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.

  

  Ricky Ponting
  • Shoes
  • Playing
  • Transition

• I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Choices
  • Feelings
  • Drug

• Do it all the time – work hard. It’s hard work .

  

  Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
  • Work Hard
  • All The Time

• Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

  

  George Foreman
  • Choose
  • Hardest

• Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Provide
  • Prudence
  • Solomon