Benjamin Quotes

There is no little enemy

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

High valuations entail high risks.

God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

The best is the cheapest.

Silence is the mother of truth.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

The gondola of London [a hansom].

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.

Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Live the rest of your life in possibility

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

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

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.