Benjamin Quotes

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

There is no education like adversity.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.