Famous quotes containing the words distance and/or record:
“As distance shows a horse’s strength, so time reveals a person’s heart.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had ordered his punishment commuted to imprisonment ... and had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)