Benjamin Quotes

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

There is no wisdom like frankness.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

I have a definition of success.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter