Abraham Polonsky quote: "A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead."

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The ans...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY

We strongly urge the two governments to take bold steps in order to start implementation of solution...
ABRAHAM ABRAHAM

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not plea...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible wort...
ABRAHAM CAHAN

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection a...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of men...
KARL ABRAHAM

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inh...
KARL ABRAHAM

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the d...
KARL ABRAHAM

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neur...
KARL ABRAHAM

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychologi...
KARL ABRAHAM

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed ...
KARL ABRAHAM

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural simi...
KARL ABRAHAM

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to vi...
KARL ABRAHAM

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibit...
KARL ABRAHAM

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child wil...
KARL ABRAHAM

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
KARL ABRAHAM

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver...
JOHN ABRAHAM

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Whenever I hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personal...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I was on the abutment.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, b...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opene...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing yo...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the ...
ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co...
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus ...
ABRAHAM ROBINSON

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star wh...
ABRAHAM PAIS

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up und...
ABRAHAM PAIS

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to...
ABRAHAM PAIS

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to kn...
ABRAHAM PAIS

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c...
ABRAHAM PAIS

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with auster...
ABRAHAM KUYPER

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone ...
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we...
ABRAHAM FLEXNER

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
ABRAHAM COWLEY

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, an...
ABRAHAM CLARK

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War ...
ABRAHAM CLARK

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

You must never tire fighting Satan.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

What is wealth? A dream of fools.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probab...
ABRAHAM CAHAN

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often ...
ABRAHAM CAHAN

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
ABRAHAM CAHAN

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI

It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
ABRAHAM BENRUBI

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

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