Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.