Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 632 Proverbs quotesProverbs QuotesProverbs Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it.~ Desiderius Erasmus When somebody lies, somebody loses.~ Stephanie Ericsson Fate is an open road, and all you can do is put your foot on the gas and Drive, Baby Drive.~ Padraig Flynn The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.~ B. C. Forbes If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.~ Anatole France How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.~ Anne Frank Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. Frank Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.~ Viktor Frankl Little strokes fell great oaks.~ Benjamin Franklin Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.~ Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.~ Benjamin Franklin Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin Franklin In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty.~ Benjamin Franklin Moderation in all things -- including moderation.~ Benjamin Franklin Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.~ Benjamin Franklin There was never a good war, or a bad peace.~ Benjamin Franklin Plough deep while sluggards sleep.~ Benjamin Franklin Constitutions are made of paper; Bayonets are made of steel.~ French Aphorism There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.~ French Proverb Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.~ Sigmund Freud Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print