Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Benjamin Franklin

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Benjamin Franklin

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Benjamin Franklin

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

Benjamin Franklin

Man is a tool-making animal

Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Benjamin Franklin

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

Benjamin Franklin

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.

Benjamin Franklin

When men are employed they are best contented.

Benjamin Franklin

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Benjamin Franklin

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Benjamin Franklin

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

Ben Cohen

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

Belle Boyd

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Ben Casnocha

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Ben Bradlee

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Ben Affleck

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

Barnabe Barnes

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Barbara Walters

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Barbara Walters

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

Barbara Walters

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Barbara Tuchman

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

Barbra Streisand

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

Barbra Streisand

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Barbra Streisand

If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

Aviv Nevo

I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this stuff and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?

Arthur Erickson

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Arthur Erickson

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Arthur Eddington

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Arthur Golden

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Arthur Golden

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Arthur Golden

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.