
Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)
Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)
The Pessimist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?”
Attributed in Jean Dresden Grambs (1959), Abraham Lincoln Through the Eyes of High School Youth
Misattributed
Variant: If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 5 (1877)
Context: "Words, words, words," he writes, "are the stumbling-blocks in the way of truth. Until you think of things as they are, and not of the words that misrepresent them, you cannot think rightly. Words produce the appearance of hard and fast lines where there are none. Words divide; thus we call this a man, that an ape, that a monkey, while they are all only differentiations of the same thing. To think of a thing they must be got rid of: they are the clothes that thoughts wear—only the clothes. I say this over and over again, for there is nothing of more importance. Other men's words will stop you at the beginning of an investigation. A man may play with words all his life, arranging them and rearranging them like dominoes. If I could think to you without words you would understand me better."
“Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.”
On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
“All Nature wears one universal grin.”
Act I, sc. i
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)
“Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.”
Written on banners used in the 1928 gubernatorial election; quoted in Hugh Davis Graham, Huey Long (1970), p. 39.