Benjamin Franklin Quotes

All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.

Benjamin Franklin

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Popular

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Think
  • Change

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Feet
  • Boots

• You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Political
  • You
  • Know

• From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Technology
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Care
  • Survival

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • She
  • Wish
  • Name

• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • May
  • Today

• The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Life
  • Important
  • Strong

• The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

  

  Jerry Moss
  • Life
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Fighting