Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates app...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What t...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding ...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Christmas is over and Business is Business
FRANKLIN ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year
FRANKLIN ADAMS Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN ADAMS We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to ...
FRANKLIN ADAMS In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no cal...
FRANKLIN ADAMS While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN ADAMS One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may no...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.
FRANKLIN P. JONES The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
FRANKLIN P. JONES It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
FRANKLIN P. JONES All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
FRANKLIN P. JONES You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FRANKLIN P. JONES The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
FRANKLIN P. JONES A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
FRANKLIN P. JONES An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stra...
FRANKLIN P. JONES You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stran...
FRANKLIN P. JONES The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.
FRANKLIN P. JONES You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
FRANKLIN P. JONES A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next...
FRANKLIN P. JONES One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo...
FRANKLIN P. JONES An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
FRANKLIN P. JONES What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it co...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and ...
FRANKLIN P. JONES The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Sex is a two-way treat.
FRANKLIN P. JONES It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
FRANKLIN P. JONES When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Originality is the art of concealing your source.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
FRANKLIN P. JONES You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Hamilton Wright Mabie...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
FRANKLIN P. JONES When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.
FRANKLIN P JONES Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an aquaintance, or a stran...
FRANKLIN P JONES Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FRANKLIN P. JONES The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far t...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Seeing ourselves as others would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
FRANKLIN P. JONES One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it...
FRANKLIN P. JONES It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may no...
FRANKLIN P. JONES An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding ...
FRANKLIN P. JONES What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it comple...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Experience is that marvellous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to ...
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
FRANKLIN P. JONES One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo...
FRANKLIN P. JONES One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist
FRANKLIN P. JONES When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.
FRANKLIN P. JONES The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar<...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Too much truth is uncouth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too yo...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Christmas is over and Business is Business.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too y...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS You do not know what you can miss before you try.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sev...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no cal...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Christmas is over and Business is Business
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I woul...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH 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 I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
ARETHA 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