Benjamin Quotes

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Music does not excite until it is performed.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

What good shall I do this day?

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

Hunger is the best pickle.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.