famous abraham lincoln quotes

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow



I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end. ~Fred Couples



People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers



Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. ~Ambrose Bierce



Drawing on my find command of language, I said nothing. ~Robert Charles Benchley



It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom. ~Robley Wilson, Jr.



The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball



We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold



Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning? ~Frank N. Ikard, North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Houston, March 1968



People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates



Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions



When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan



On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ~George Orwell



Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960



The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~Khalil Gibran



Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~Martha Graham



Hunting sober is like - fishing, sober. ~Uncle Jimbo, "Volcano," original airdate 20 August 1997, written by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother. ~Edward H. Dreschnack



When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. ~John Locke



The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. ~J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987