Benjamin Quotes

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

If you have time don't wait for time.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

London is a roost for every bird.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.