I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is ...
MICHAEL CAINE You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
THEODORE BIKEL Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether...
IAN LUSTICK When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying...
MAHESH BABU I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a ...
SONAKSHI SINHA I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my b...
STEVE CROPPER We've had quite a few flops, actually. It's you're going to get into this, you have to expect some f...
HEIDI PERRY The golden rule has always been to remake films that were not a success, if you saw something in the...
WILLIAM LUHR Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because y...
CHARLES DURNING I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest ro...
OSCAR WILDE It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the ...
WILL DURANT Do not say that if he truly loves you he should always find you desirable even when he doesn't. I ha...
LEBO GRAND I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spi...
DALAI LAMA I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He took a dead genre notorious for flops turned it into one of the biggest hits. It'll be interestin...
BRANDON GRAY You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhe...
ZUBIN MEHTA When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.
INDIANA EVANS Do not say all that you know, but always know what you say
APPIUS CLAUDIUS Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyon...
MAURY YESTON You'd say Richard Gere, Paula.
KATHI NAHASS To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're per...
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
OLIVER REED I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're...
JAMES WHISTLER Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
CLAUDIUS You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus ...
MIKE NICHOLS The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few ...
ALICE LOWE There I am in my flip-flops, ... I've already got calls from my friends - 'Your flip-flops are showi...
J. COLLINS I nearly believe you. The challenge remains extended-make me believe you -- Benjamin
SHERMAINE WILLIAMS The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.
JANETTE RALLISON I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
ELON MUSK I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses t...
STEPHEN MERCHANT Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'
DICK DALE I believe that you can always learn from observation.
TAMARA TUNIE I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.
KAREN CUSHMAN I would say, and we have always said, that this should not be used as the only criteria to pick a ho...
JEAN CHENOWETH I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
ALAN BLEASDALE I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
JOSH BILLINGS I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
SAMINA BAIG I think we showed we're ready for the rest of league. We finally got our offense going. We were alwa...
ANDY ROGERS We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. When it hits you, it hits you, like that -- bam!
ALEX BURKHARDT You can go in, in cut-offs and flip-flops, between shows, and not be annoyed by regular people,
GARY BEACH For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell ...
RICHARD NEEDHAM If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
CHARLES BARKLEY As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myt...
MAHATMA GANDHI As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...
MAHATMA GANDHI Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry
WILFRED SHEED We got some hits, but we didn't get timely hits. We had nine hits. We should have scored 15 runs.
AL MCCULLOCK I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it...
RICHARD SEYMOUR Some of those kids did have difficulties, and there were one or two that police officers had to sit ...
ANDY WELCH People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Bran...
AFROJACK Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...
MAHATMA GANDHI You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're per...
JAMES WHISTLER You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're pe...
JAMES WHISTLER People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I...
ELIZABETH BERG We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
AL GORE When have I, when have I ever forced anyone to do anything, he starts to say: but Richard cuts in, "...
HILARY MANTEL My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment ...
PETER O'TOOLE The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you...
SEAN M. CARROLL I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think e...
CARLY SCHROEDER Donnie said, 'When Jason hits one he usually hits two,' ... No sooner did he say it that he hit the ...
JOE TORRE People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be d...
ALVIN AILEY There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready...
C. JOYBELL C. What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever do...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
NANCY MEYERS Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
RAOUL VANEIGEM If you have got a jacket with a belt, you do not want to leave the belt undone, because it flops aro...
VANESSA FRIEDMAN The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the close...
ALAN CUMMING It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential te...
MOHSIN HAMID I always say it's like licking icing. You appreciate [Lloyd Webber's] music more when you look at th...
ALICE RIPLEY I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...
JIMMY CARTER To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You ...
DAVID CHANG I believe that I have always told the truth.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed t...
WALTER ISAACSON You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you...
JAMES WHISTLER There are flip-flips and there are flip-flops and there are FLIP-FLOPS. Some are well made. Some are...
DORETHA EDGECOMB Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.
HERMANN HESSE I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
ZAYN MALIK I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
JANET ECHELMAN I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
DANA PERINO I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what ot...
FRANCESCA ANNIS I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.
BRUCE VILANCH You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is ...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
CARY GRANT In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some bel...
MARLEE MATLIN If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also ...
RUSSIAN PROVERB Richard said, 'I'm not choking him, it just looks like I am choking him.
DAVID ROBERTSON There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand up and ...
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WALTER BENJAMIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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 HARRISON A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
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BENJAMIN JOWETT Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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BENJAMIN JOWETT One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had
only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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BENJAMIN COHEN Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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 WIKER Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
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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 Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
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BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable
BENJAMIN SPOCK What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after a...
BENJAMIN SPOCK You know more than you think you do.
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BENJAMIN JOWETT We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
BENJAMIN JOWETT When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinki...
BENJAMIN JOWETT An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister
immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
WALTER BENJAMIN There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI