Infamy Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infamy Plenty Poverty Pride
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The legacy of Ronald Reagan will live on forever. I, of course, had the wonderful opportunity of working with him and getting to know… — Sarah Brady Copy Share Image
The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining,… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
