"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing……" — Benjamin Franklin
"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."
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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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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my…
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I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon…
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really…
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
— John Berger
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to…
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished…
— Bill Brandt
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
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