C.C. Franklin Quotes

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.

Lost time is never found again.

You may delay but time will not.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

Peace like charity begins at home.

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

The proud hate pride - in others.

If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

If you want a thing done go if not send.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

War is a contagion.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.