Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Topics

LearningMeLearnRememberForget

Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.

Jenny Mollen

LoveMoneyDoingWhat You LoveYou

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Jeremy Collier

WalkSchoolBookNoseUsedBuried

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

John Doolittle

WomenDayMenWarBraveFighting

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.

Mel Gibson

FunDieYouGoMeanRight

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

SchoolValueBookBlackHobbyPenny

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Mike Birbiglia

TimePaceFavoriteTermsComedies

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

Monica Johnson

ChoicesComplainingOurLedMany

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

Joyce DeWitt

GiftGivingYouProjectAudience

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur

LifeJourneyTimeSoulHonorDone

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.

Dennis Christopher

WorkAwayBeenCommitmentsLover

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Christopher Hitchens

HumbleIdentityPeopleHelpYoung

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

Corrine Brown

AmericanMoreSeeAgainOncePublic

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