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Easily Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to…
- I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;…
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily…
- A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the…
- Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay,…
More Easily Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
- I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just… — Margaret Atwood
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not… — Francis Bacon
- I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder… — Eric Bana
- The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully… — George Bancroft
- When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on… — Tyra Banks
- Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily. — Max Baucus