Lincoln and later friends - Quotes

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyerhas superior opportunity of being a good man.There will be business enough"

My how times of changed with lawyers telling their clients to sue anyone at every opportunity. - My quote

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"

"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much"

"Genius is born not paid"

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another"

How true you hear of these sentiments on an almost daily basis to-day

George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying

"A modern gentleman (rich person) is necessarily the enemy of his Country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it passing to a foreigner"

""If History repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"

As an actress Glenda Jackson was quoted as saying

"My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man"
She is also quoted as saying
"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better"

Honor Blackman was quoted (about The Avengers) as saying
"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale"
Also (regarding her outfits on The Avengers)
"I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it feels nice"

The actress describes herself as "being famous for being cool about not being gorgeous"
Also

She is also quoted as saying (About the Academy Awards) "It's a creme-de-la creme of bulls..t"

After a visit to Rwanda Hugh Dancy was quoted as saying

"When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwandain a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there"

Helena Christensen is quotes as saying about modelling

"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful"