Benjamin Quotes

80 quotes by 76 authors

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and… — Tim Ferriss
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system,… — Jon Bon Jovi
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while… — Ruth Ann Minner
My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel.… — Benjamin Netanyahu
I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law… — Amy Poehler
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. — Pete du Pont
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over… — Rick Santelli
I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name… — David Ebershoff
After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A… — Glenn Beck
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is… — Benjamin Franklin
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to… — W. Cleon Skousen
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much… — George Orwell
Benjamin, weâ€™re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us? — Eric Roth
I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously… — Lilith Saintcrow
Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having some sort of… — Lilith Saintcrow
Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria? — Elizabeth Goudge
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew… — Carl Sandburg
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade… — Rebecca Solnit
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yetâ€”never, until this wet, horrible morning, when… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with… — Gretchen Rubin

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