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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment Remember Wrong Place Say

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

Jef I. Richards

Hope Money Advertising You Make

Friends have a big influence over how you feel, think, and behave.

Influence Think Feel Friends You

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

You Television Vote Minutes How Few

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.

Feeling Outfit Too Much Without Up

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life Girl Me Song Isolation You

I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

Live City You Place Chicago Street

I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.

Justice Step People Think Find High

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Memory Way Always Fact Fascinated

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Life Good Women Day School Busy

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

Philippa Gregory

Life History Moment Me My Life

Most fiction comes from your experience.

Experience Fiction Your Most

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

Father Sea Fishing Man Child River

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