Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Benjamin Franklin

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Benjamin Franklin

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Benjamin Franklin

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Benjamin Franklin

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Benjamin Franklin

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Benjamin Franklin

There is always room for the man of force.

Benjamin Franklin

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

Benjamin Franklin

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Benjamin Franklin

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

Benjamin Franklin

When men are employed they are best contented.

Benjamin Franklin

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Ben Bradlee

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Barnabe Barnes

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Barbara Walters

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Barbara Walters

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?

Arthur Golden

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Bob Hope

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

Bob Hope

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

Bob Hope

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Black Elk

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

Bette Midler

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Betty Friedan

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

Betty Friedan

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Betty Friedan

the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

Betty Friedan

Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.