Quotes About Ben Franklin

#1. Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Earl Warren

#2. When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Walter Isaacson

#3. Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#4. The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.

Meg Jay

#5. Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray

Monet Polny

#6. Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Evan Bayh

#7. (Ben) Franklin was never content to let opportunity find him.

H.W. Brands

#8. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T

Neil Gaiman

#9. Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say,
Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Rachel Caine

#10. Lighthouses are more useful than churches." - Ben Franklin

Edwin Herbert

#11. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#12. As Ben Franklin said, "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." I

Steve Kamb

#13. the Ben Franklin Bridge that would take her back to the City of Brotherly Love and to the comforts of her messy home. Relief should have been the last thing on her mind since the bridge spanned the Schuylkill River,

Anne McAneny

#14. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

#15. This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.

Orson Scott Card

#16. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.

Jeff Ferry

#17. Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all the way through life. Their lessons are easy to assimilate."

Charlie Munger

#18. Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Seth Green

#19. A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

#20. In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Natsuo Kirino

#21. I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

Ben Bernanke

#22. No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.

John Keltonic

#23. - When the police are criminals, the criminals must become the police. The innocent must live underground, in the shit of the city, while the villains live in warm apartments. The world is upside down: I'm merely turning it the right way up.

Tom Rob Smith

#24. A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still

Dale Carnegie

#25. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Narcotics Anonymous

#26. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

James Bovard

#27. Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Ben Marcus

#28. Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali.

Saba Naqvi

#29. Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

#30. Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

#31. No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H.L. Mencken

#32. We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.

William B. Irvine