Benjamin Quotes

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

God willing and the creek don't rise

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Travel teaches toleration.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.