He may be best remembered as the 16th President of the United States of America, but Abraham Lincoln was quick with a quip, well spoken and witty, and responsible for some of the funniest statements ever made by a sitting President. Here are just a handful of hilarious Abraham Lincoln quotes to brighten your day with a smile and a chuckle.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.”
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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