Abraham lincoln Quote by Shelby Foote

“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it…

— Jim Bishop

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN As”

— Anonymous

“there was one thing left to do: ask the only person I knew who was married, always honest with me, and never mocked my…

— Justin Halpern

“For there's nothing in the world so bad for some women as marriage, he thought; and politics...”

— Virginia Woolf

“Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I’d ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was…

— Lorraine Heath

“The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know…

— Nancy Thayer

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln”

— Peter Atkins

“I wouldn't be caught dead marring a woman old enough to be my wife.”

— Tony Curtis

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she…

— Anna Quindlen

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin