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Humor Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point…
- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
- My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- 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.
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
- I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen