What Are Some Of Benjamin Franklins Quotes

#1. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Arthur Ashe

#2. Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

Michael O'Donoghue

#3. We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,

Fred Upton

#4. I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

William Faulkner

#5. My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin - the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man ... Where are the life-size - or even pint-size - Benjamin Franklins of today?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#6. The Soviets made me change Romeo and Juliet so that it would have a happy ending, a barbarism, because living people can dance, but the dead cannot dance lying down.

Sergey Prokofiev

#7. To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.

Julian Fellowes

#8. People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

Henry Parry Liddon

#10. The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Hjalmar Schacht

#11. Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Ivan Turgenev

#12. There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

Beck

#13. How to contact in case of an emergency?
I prefer 911 myself ...

Neil Leckman

#14. I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

Natalie Du Toit

#15. If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Romola Garai

#16. I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he's retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you're retired, people don't bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

Bill Murray