Benjamin Quotes

I wished it was raining, " he said."I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help, " he said."I don't know how to do that, either.

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

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

He wished to please everybody, " Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations.

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

There are worst things in life than kissing boys.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Everyone's on a journey trying to find their purpose in life. That lost horizon. You'll never truly be happy...until you find it!

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

If you want a thing done go - if not send.

God helps them that helps themselves.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Those things that hurt instruct.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

All would live long but none would be old.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

His Christianity was muscular.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.

Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.