Quote #117
It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.
More from Abraham Lincoln
- Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to…
- It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.