"There's many witty men whose brains can't fill……" — Benjamin Franklin
"There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies."
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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 Bellies Quotes
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one of 68 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate…
— Peter Diamandis
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.…
— John Owen
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
— J. B. Priestley
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Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it;…
— Mike Ditka
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ethics is for people with full bellies.
— John Kessel
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality,…
— Ken Wilber
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