The Pacific Life Open is one of the world's most prestigious tennis tournaments with a significant profile in the U.S. sports landscape.


Franklin Johnson

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Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
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When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
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He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
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An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
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When in doubt, don't.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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Lost time is never found again.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Time is the glue that bonds a broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue. -J. Franklin.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
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Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
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In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
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Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
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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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The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
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He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
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Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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Love well, whip well.
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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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The things which hurt, instruct.
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He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN