I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, i...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Politics are not my arena. Music is.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
ARETHA FRANKLIN When God loves you, what can be better than that?
ARETHA FRANKLIN I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've don...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you rig...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift tha...
ARETHA FRANKLIN It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.
ARETHA FRANKLIN You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Women absolutely deserve respect.
ARETHA FRANKLIN We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secula...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I didn't think there was enough, by any means. And it was my feeling: 'How dare you come to Detroit,...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I still have another couple of duos that I'm working on, ... I really would like to finish that ASAP...
ARETHA FRANKLIN We were a little upset initially. Detroit is a city of music legends, and we thought it would be rem...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I don't think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award, ... does not ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
ARETHA FRANKLIN with all the other geniuses. I was mesmerized when I heard him live.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that Go...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
ARETHA FRANKLIN And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door cryi...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
ARETHA FRANKLIN I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates wha...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I still have perfect diction!
ARETHA FRANKLIN I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and t...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and wit...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Ma...
ARETHA FRANKLIN As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I used to have hamburgers coming and going, especially when I was on the road. Now, occasionally I w...
ARETHA FRANKLIN The moment I wake up, Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you
ARETHA FRANKLIN The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.
ARETHA FRANKLIN He was the greatest. He really was great.
ARETHA FRANKLIN We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and l...
ARETHA FRANKLIN What they said to me was that they were doing it in honor of the Katrina evacuees. The music has bee...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Until You Come Back to Me.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I don't think they did know what to do with me, ... But what they did do is establish an audience fo...
ARETHA FRANKLIN It's the right thing to do. Hopefully some of the other performers in town will follow suit.
ARETHA FRANKLIN A fellow Detroiter, Wilson Pickett was one of the greatest soul singers of all time.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Actually, most of the people who go to see the contest are not from here,
ARETHA FRANKLIN Honeycomb.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I cannot remember an awards show or anything where Stevie and I were together or where we performed,
ARETHA FRANKLIN Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise... twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I love the Ritz.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!
ARETHA FRANKLIN I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I sing to the realists .People who accept it like it is .
ARETHA FRANKLIN A thinker thinks, a doer does. A winner wins, a loser looses. A savior saves, a killer kills. What y...
CLARISSE ARETHA Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE 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 Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for...
MICHELLE FRANKLIN A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
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...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
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...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 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 Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN 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 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 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 Ladies, your power can influence for right or wrong, for victory or defeat. Remember, people have a ...
JENTEZEN FRANKLIN 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 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 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 Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 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 A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN