Benjamin Quotes

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.