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Benjamin Franklin

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A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
FRANCIS BACON Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
SIR FRANCIS BACON The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
BRIGHAM YOUNG Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
ANDY ROONEY Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
LALU PRASAD YADAV It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
DANNY AIELLO The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
RICHARD MADDEN I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
MAXIM GORKY He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
MARAT SAFIN “You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.” ― Carew Papritz, The Leg...
CAREW PAPRITZ The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and ...
PAUL VALERY It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
BILL O'REILLY Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
BILL O'REILLY Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
PETER O'TOOLE It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?
LAUREN BACALL All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
MARCUS GARVEY Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
RITA MAE BROWN Be a man! Put on a mask!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and ...
JENNY UGLOW I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundi...
EMILE DURKHEIM I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
DAVY CROCKETT I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart.
NIALL HORAN You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent huma...
MALCOLM X To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
CESAR CHAVEZ A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ...
CARLOS WALLACE If practice makes a man perfect then what perfect practice makes a man?
VIKRANT PARSAI There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes ev...
G. K. CHESTERTON Even a blind man could see she is beautiful.
KEN POIROT In prayer, man travel to God and in meditation God ravel to man.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER A man who’s susceptible to panic attack is a man full of worry
SUNDAY ADELAJA Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be ...
YEHUDA AMICHAI Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
PATRICIA IRELAND Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has t...
PATTI SMITH The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"
LORI GOTTLIEB Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
JOHN STEINBECK There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
RALPH STEADMAN It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha mal...
MIRANDA HART No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the...
SOCRATES We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'R...
OMAR DORSEY Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.
CHANAKYA Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
JOHN ADAMS The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
LORD KELVIN The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN He was the only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
MICHAEL FOOT Money makes a man laugh
JOHN SELDEN Doubt makes a man decent.
HARRY CREWS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
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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?
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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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
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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...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
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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...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
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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.
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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
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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.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Observe all men, thyself most.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
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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 Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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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