Part I, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.”
Variant: It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
Source: Mockingjay
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
Context: This new constitution. or form of government, constitutes the subject to which your attention will be partly invited. In reference to it, I make this first general remark: it amply secures all our ancient rights, franchises, and liberties. All the great principles of Magna Charta are retained in it. No citizen is deprived of life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers under the laws of the land. The great principle of religious liberty, which was the honor and pride of the old constitution, is still maintained and secured. All the essentials of the old constitution, which have endeared it to the hearts of the American people, have been preserved and perpetuated. Some changes have been made. Some of these I should have preferred not to have seen made; but other important changes do meet my cordial approbation. They form great improvements upon the old constitution. So, taking the whole new constitution, I have no hesitancy in giving it as my judgment that it is decidedly better than the old.
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.”
Latterday Warnings; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Source: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 40
