Abraham Lincoln Ship Quotations

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."