Benjamin
To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. - Benjamin Disraeli
Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. - Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is the trustee of prosperity. - Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. (1804-1881, British Prime Minister) - Benjamin Disraeli
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. {At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776} - Benjamin Franklin
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - Benjamin Franklin
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. - Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting for the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours. {Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775} - Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. - Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good war or a bad peace. {Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773} - Benjamin Franklin
God helps them that help themselves. {Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757} - Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. {Letter to M. Leroy, 1789} - Benjamin Franklin
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. - Benjamin Franklin
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. - Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. {Historical Review of Pennsylvania} - Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. - Benjamin Franklin
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. - Benjamin Franklin
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. - Benjamin Franklin
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. - Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost. - Benjamin Franklin
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. {Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772} - Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. - Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals, courtesy, to inferiors, nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults. - Benjamin Franklin
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. - Benjamin Franklin
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin
Time is money. - Benjamin Franklin
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. - Benjamin Franklin
Keep you eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. - Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. - Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Keep conscience clear, then never fear. - Benjamin Franklin
Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice. - Inaugural Address, 1889 - Benjamin Harrison
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done. - Benjamin Morrell
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner. - Benjamin Whichcote
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. - Dr. Benjamin Spock
The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return. - Dr. Benjamin Spock
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Franklin, Benjamin