"A long visit to a friend is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”
“Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.”
“There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.”
More on Friendship
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
“Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.”
More on Humor
“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”
“I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.”
“Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.”