The Cleverest Creature – Quote by Abraham Lincoln
“The hen is the cleverest creature in the animal kingdom. She clucks only after the egg is laid.”
Abraham Lincoln
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One Day Is Not a Day of the Week – Inspiring Quote by Janet Dailey
“One day is not a day of the week.”
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Enthusiasm and Work
“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Horror and Fear in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
“Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.”
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft Quote on Dogs and Cats – Observation of Behavior
“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Cats and Dogs
“The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic – nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Immortality and Oblivion
“Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Sophocles Quotes on Success – The Truth About Hard Work and Achievement
“Success, remember is the reward of toil.”
Sophokles
“Thinking Is Hard Work” – Quote by Henry Ford
“Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.”
Henry Ford
George Orwell on Rifles and Democracy
“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
George Orwell