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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Great Lie Truth Is Half Often

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

Good Death Me Decisions You Will

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

Music Think Write Informed Different

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Education Science People American Go

Russia's economy is both cursed and blessed by oil. When the oil price goes up, there is a tremendous 'wealth effect' spilling over into all corners of the economy, but this diminishes the drive to develop other industries to diversify away from overreliance on oil.

Blessed Drive Wealth Price Oil Over

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

Michael Azerrad

Glamour Nirvana Fact In Fact

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Gold Uncertainty Feel More Currency

Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza.

Step People Important Protect Single

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

Best Me Grow Old

I've followed Leeds since I was a little kid. I used to come home from sport in the afternoon, me and my brother, and watch 'Match of the Day.' I love the club. I want nothing but success for the club.

Love Success Home Day Brother Me

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Relationship Children Hero Cooking

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Fire Me Language Wheel Inventions

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Time Photography Now Possible Fix

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