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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her


Abraham Lincoln

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ALEXANDER POPE Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
SARAH VOWELL Not wearing Golda shoes while playing her would be like playing Abraham Lincoln in a bowler hat,
TOVAH FELDSHUH Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have b...
ELTON TRUEBLOOD In a relationship, a real man makes his woman feel special; he doesn’t make her feel jealous.
ANE KRSTEVSKA Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that...
KALYAN C. KANKANALA Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil W...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.
KATHARINE ASHE If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
SAM WATERSTON When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous...
STEVE MARABOLI No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while livi...
THOMAS VERNOR SMITH Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I ...
LEILA SALES No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in h...
PIA PERA The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry E...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
DAISY BATES No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
DAISY BATES The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her a...
ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
GORE VIDAL Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt...
MAURICE SWITZER Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant ...
SAM HOUSTON numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be de...
SHERRILYN KENYON There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.
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GEORGE SAUNDERS No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, comp...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepp...
HAROLD HOLZER If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN May a man learn to date solitude long before he looks for a woman. The first being plentiful with me...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see...
HELEN ROWLAND Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea o...
JOHN GRAY Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea o...
JOHN GRAY The world did not appreciate Abraham Lincoln until he died. His great figure has been looming higher...
CHARLES JEFFERSON The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right.... But she is more often left.
UNKNOWN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nic...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I liked what Douglass had accomplished in his day, and I liked the message of the play – that anyon...
DON PERKINS Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are crea...
SIDNEY SHELDON With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever ha...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H.L. MENCKEN Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A man may keep his heart encased in stone but despite his best efforts a woman can steal it whenever...
E.R. ROCK God hath thus ordered it, that we may learn to bear one another’s burdens; for no man is without f...
THOMAS à KEMPIS More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lin...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If a woman so much loves money, she will not fail to share her secret with fools.
VIKRANT PARSAI There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighti...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be ...
DANIEL O'BRIEN I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it ...
DOSTOEVSKY The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
DAISY BATES No man can help another without helping himself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools
PROVERB A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
THOMAS FULLER A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off...
SACHA GUITRY God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
JENNY WEBER God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
BENJAMIN TILLETT President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.
BOB MARLEY Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...
W. E. B. DU BOIS Next time I saw Crawford, she wanted another round. I told her straight-out I didn't much enjoy doin...
JOAN CRAWFORD When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
JULIA ROBERTS With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
WILKIE COLLINS There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonh...
STEVEN SPIELBERG No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her...
JOHN STEINBECK I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
BARACK OBAMA I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
HANOI HANNAH Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is n...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at ...
ALEXANDER WALKER Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at ...
ALEXANDER WALKER In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared two Thanksgivings. One was held in August. The second, held in Nov...
LINDA BOZZO Mystery is what makes women, woman. A woman without mystery is no woman. She is a girl who has yet d...
IMANIA MARGRIA Dont ever underestimate a woman that may have eyes of an angel and beauty like that of a goddess bec...
PATRICE TILLMON But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart scre...
COCO J. GINGER Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hand...
JERRY LEWIS Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is create...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form...
STACEY D'ERASMO Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and...
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my g...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everybody likes a compliment.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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