No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.


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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK
We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY
This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON
'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE
There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT
Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON
Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY
I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN
It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY