Abraham lincoln Quote by Abraham Lincoln Download Open image ““A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”” — Abraham Lincoln ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abraham lincoln Comedy Farce Humor Tragedy
“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.” — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“Life is much more smooth when you have your story complete, be it a tragedy or a comedy.” — Upasana Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.” — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in… — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“An elderly black man stepped forward and prayed aloud for Lincoln’s safety. Much to Coffin’s surprise, the President “lifted his own hat from his… — Noah Andre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher each succeeding decade. We understand Jesus better… — Charles Jefferson Copy Share Image
