Famous Quotes and Proverbs

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

The most altruistic man is the most selfish.

Abraham Lincoln

What, you egg? Young fry of treachery!

William Shakespeare

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Abraham Lincoln

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Amin Maalouf

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

William Shakespeare

You can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Abraham Lincoln

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining the countryside.

Donald Trump