"Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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More Alphabet Quotes
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.
— Giorgio Armani
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to…
— Murray Rothbard
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
— Jonathan Swift
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
— John Wayne
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
— Robert Fulton
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
— Dennis Miller
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
— Victor Hugo
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
— Mitch Hedberg
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
— Chris Brown
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