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'Tis better leave for an enemy at one's death, than beg of a friend in one's life


Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Better an honest enemy than a false friend
GERMAN PROVERB This kid (Aqua Franklin) started every game for me last year at the point. Now she's a sophomore, an...
GARY BLAIR An open enemy is better than a false friend
GREEK PROVERB The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enem...
SENECA We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ...
MITT ROMNEY A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.
SIMONA PANOVA The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...
RAY BRADBURY Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
JOSH BILLINGS Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend
JOSH BILLINGS There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
UNKNOWN It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certa...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certai...
BIAS OF PRIENE That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere f...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an...
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an...
ANNE SWETCHINE Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
JENNIFER ARMENTROUT There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The greatest enemy is often ones mind
IAN IJH HOWELL The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy.
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.
SENEGALESE PROVERB It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHE DELUZY It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
MADAME DOROTHéE DELUZY It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend
MADAME DOROTHEE DELUZY Rewrite all rules in your life which are not going to hurt others! There must be better options than...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, neve...
KATE MOSSE How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, ...
C.S. LEWIS Somestimes NATURAL BEAUTY is BETTER than the EDITED ONES!!!
VIPIN ONGALATHE One bad general is better than two good ones
FRENCH PROVERB CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told t...
AMBROSE BIERCE Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
ALLAN SLOAN Better to dig one deep well than 10 shallow ones.
INDIAN PROVERB Ones oldest friend is the best.
PLAUTUS It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Just as with other end-of-life decisions, you and your loved ones can plan for your funeral prior to...
ANDREW CROCKER Just as with other end-of-life decisions, you and your loved ones can plan for your funeral prior to...
ANDREW B. CROCKER People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than...
JIM MORRISON The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like...
RUTH ANN MINNER Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the o...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
TAYA KYLE Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Everyone leaves footprints in you memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the o...
NICHOLAS SPERLING Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson...
JEFFREY FRY A child learns lessons in life more from his unhappy parents than his happy ones.
VIKRANT PARSAI Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ...
THOMAS KRETSCHMANN People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more ...
JIM MORRISON Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Many times, we'd be the only ones out there.
CLIFFORD JORDAN Your long-term holdings you leave alone, but your shorter-term ones you may want to move.
JEFFREY HIRSCH I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln There is no little enemy. •Benj...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned o...
JENNIFER EGAN How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularl...
SAMUEL BECKETT He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL If you believe the good ones, you'll believe the bad ones. It's better to look at 'em after you've f...
RIP TORN To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -Madame Dorothée Deluzy.
MADAME DOROTHÉE DELUZY A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your ye...
BERYL MARKHAM 'Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than par...
WARREN BUFFETT People, who have real vision, are the ones who can see beyond death. These are the ones who have the...
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank...
JON BON JOVI Corporate results are coming in a fairly decent way and are better than expected, the market is clea...
JAN LEROY I'm very pleased to say the ones I have heard from are in a better position than they were previousl...
DWIGHT MILLER For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE I can only hope that the life i leave, will lead to the ones that were blessed from the life i lived...
STUART R. PREWITT The ones that love us never really leave us.
J.K. ROWLING [T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed t...
WALTER ISAACSON I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of ...
CHARLES LINDBERGH Those who have sacrificed always have the most to lose.
DANIELLE PAIGE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Its better to get Cut & Split apart ones in all by Knife THAN Being in a fake Relation & Loosing a P...
ASHISH SOPHAT If you're looking for a friend, keep looking. While I make a worthwhile enemy, I'm an appalling frie...
BOBBY W. MILLER Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worl...
MATTHEW STEWART It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that...
SENECA For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR Keep the ones who hurt you in check, cherish the few your heart placed an asterisk for you to keep f...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Don't take life for granted or love ones for granted. Today may be the only time you have left to sm...
THERESA LEWIS

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN