He may well win the race that runs by himself
Benjamin Franklin
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JOE LAUINGER Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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JON BON JOVI There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
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ANNALEE NEWITZ Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worl...
MATTHEW STEWART We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. Ben Frank...
E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
DAVE BARRY The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY He has the ability to win a game by himself back there,
BRIAN RILEY The Champagne was his best race, he had a nice workout Saturday, we hope he has a good week here and...
FRANK BROTHERS Life's irony;The first to reach climax city in the sex race ,may consider himself/herself the winner...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed t...
WALTER ISAACSON One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
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PETE DU PONT I doubt if she is in a position to win on Sunday as it looks a very hot race, but if she runs well w...
CHRIS RICHARDSON Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK It's a good test for him, and I expect him to run huge. Nobody scares me if he runs his race. If he ...
ERNIE PARAGALLO HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJA...
PHOEBE STONE When that verdict occurred, he was devoured by it politically. He saw himself as a political comer a...
JEFF BROWN He's done great since that race. I turned him out for 10 days after the race, just to give him a lit...
BILL SPAWR People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Frankl...
RICK RIORDAN He can win a game by himself. They got a couple of lucky bounces, but he made the difference.
LINDY RUFF No. Let's race to win every race. If we can't win, let's take a fifth or 10th or 12th-place finish o...
ROBBY GORDON They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
TRADITIONAL PROVERB He may or may not have viewed himself as a fine artist, but he did photos for himself as well as com...
LEE BRUMBAUGH We pitched well enough to win tonight. We just didn't score any runs.
MIKE HARGROVE In some ways, he may be more of an unknown than Vince Young. He didn't have the supporting cast. But...
BILL REES Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to f...
SUN TZU How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ...
AMARI SOUL His future is very bright. He possesses the qualities that many of the greater runners that I've had...
BILL HABEREK He's a huge, huge competitor, and today he really did try to win that race. He went out a little too...
MATT HENRY We won by one run, and while we'd like to put more runs up, Brooks did a great job. If he keeps doin...
ED EASLEY He was a very jovial fellow who would meet at the taverns, discussing the latest John Locke book or ...
CHRIS MULLINS If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
RICK SANTELLI People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The LTTE might well believe that it can win a separate state by force. If it does believe that, as i...
LAKSHMAN KADIRGAMAR Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by hav...
BILL JAMES The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass
ITALIAN PROVERB We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
WILL ROGERS He galloped out strong; he came out of it well. He's doing really, really well. I hope he runs well.
BARCLAY TAGG He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again...
ALEXANDER POPE The night before the race I was at the hospital with Rush, deciding if he was going to race at all. ...
JUSTIN ROULEAU His backstroke was a picture-perfect race. He's typically just as strong in the back half of the rac...
BRENNAN CLEVELAND With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shad...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He (Franklin) was throwing the ball well for four innings, then he started nibbling. When he did tha...
MIKE HARGROVE We won the race by calling the puffs well.
DANE JESPER RADICH When BERTRAND RUSSELL Those first two runs, if you dissect what happened, they weren't well-hit balls. I think a young pit...
TOREY LOVULLO Alex, the big kid that he is, he takes care of himself and when guys try to hit him, it's almost a m...
CHRIS CLARK And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet,...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is ...
CRAIG FERGUSON We knew coming in that he has a lot of talent. He does things like that. He eludes pressure and he g...
AJ HAWK He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
TURKISH PROVERB He pitched an outstanding game. We just couldn't score enough runs for him to win.
MIKE HARGROVE More important than winning a race is participation.
KARIM FDHILA Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all hav...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON He was terrific. He throws a lot of strikes and for the most part he stayed ahead of the hitters. He...
JOE TORRE We had a horse last year that we raced in this race, and it did not do very well. They are young hor...
RICHARD GUERRA But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shi...
WILLIAM COWPER He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
SUN TZU He was fighting himself. He pitched well the last time he started.
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BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON The runs just before the race will be cut to one mile.
MISTY CHANDOS A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is...
ALEC WAUGH He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will n...
TACITUS Larry played extremely well. He has struggled and he'll be the first one to tell you that. But he's ...
NICK IACIANCIO He said, 'Remember this: Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
HOWARD ZINN As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written b...
MAX HEINDEL He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE He pulled out the feeding tube that was inserted through his nose into his stomach by himself, but t...
CAROL COOPER RYLEY We want to see how he handles the track. If he runs well, we'll just keep him here.
KRISTIN MULHALL He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. H...
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HOWARD COFFIN It's anybody's race. If they can win it, we can win it. It's that close. One mistake in a turn can c...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
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What's a sundial in the shade?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
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