Benjamin Quotes

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Speak little, do much.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Do not fear mistakes.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.