"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom,……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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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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At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or…
— Mike Tyson
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We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active…
— Nicolae Ceausescu
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Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk…
— Tal Ben-Shahar
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At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is…
— Maria Montessori
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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad…
— Heather O'Neill
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Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we…
— Unknown Author
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When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save…
— Zoro
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There’s always time for babbling.
— Eoin Colfer
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale,…
— Edward Steichen
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If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
— Robert Breault
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you…
— Johannes Tauler
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Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in…
— Julie Andrews
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