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Abraham Lincoln: Quarrel not at...

Abraham Lincoln: Quarrel not at...

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can...

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Abraham Lincoln: We must not...

Abraham Lincoln: We must not...

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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Abraham Lincoln: A lawyer's advice...

Abraham Lincoln: A lawyer's advice...

A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade.

Source: Attributed
-- Abraham Lincoln,...

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Winston Churchill: Really I feel...

Winston Churchill: Really I feel...

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

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Winston Churchill: We must just...

Winston Churchill: We must just...

We must just KBO ('Keep Buggering On').

Source: Remark, Dec 1941. Finest Hour, (M....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every artist was...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every artist was...

Every artist was first an amateur.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do then...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do then...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: He is great...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: He is great...

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Government has been...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Government has been...

Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every man...

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Make yourself necessary...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Make yourself necessary...

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Many time the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Many time the...

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Source: In Webster's...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Meek young men...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Meek young men...

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature and books...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature and books...

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature encourages no...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature encourages no...

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Henry Ward Beecher: No man is...

Henry Ward Beecher: No man is...

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Source: In The...

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Henry Ward Beecher: The world's battlefields...

Henry Ward Beecher: The world's battlefields...

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the...

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Henry Ward Beecher: There can be...

Henry Ward Beecher: There can be...

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Source: In...

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Henry Ward Beecher: We never know...

Henry Ward Beecher: We never know...

We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents.

Source: In...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Christians are suppose...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Christians are suppose...

Christians are suppose not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause...

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