Benjamin Franklin Famous Quotes

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Theophile Gautier Quotes

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Isaac Asimov Quotations

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Orson Welles Quotes

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.


If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ralph Marston

"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality."

Eric Hoffer

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

A Quote From Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge is an author known for her book The Snow Queen.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.