"Opportunity is the great bawd." — Benjamin Franklin
"Opportunity is the great bawd."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
- Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
- Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
- [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
- It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
- I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
- Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
- Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
- Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
- It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
More Bawd Quotes
This quote is filed under Bawd Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
- What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead? — William Butler Yeats
- But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in… — William Butler Yeats