Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.

Benjamin Franklin

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• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • You
  • Bible

• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Style
  • English

• From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Always
  • Questions
  • Answer

• I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Morning
  • Juice
  • Squeeze

• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Man
  • Law
  • Sports

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Small
  • Beach

• People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Husband
  • Tree
  • Sky

• Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

  

  Conrad Aiken

• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Friendship
  • Wine

• Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Political

• 'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Different
  • Heart
  • May

• Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Hand
  • Disappointment

• According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

  

  George Will
  • Equal
  • Climate
  • Arctic

• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Recovery
  • Rate
  • Psychotherapy

• I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Comedy
  • Clubs
  • Crowds

• Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.

  

  Benjamin Franklin