Benjamin Franklin Quotes

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RespectImprovementManPeopleEasy

My conscience is clear.

Jim Lehrer

ConscienceClear

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

MeI CanNeedJustWhoCommunicate

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Jeff Foxworthy

LifeFamousYouNothingPrepares

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer

GreatExperienceDeepThinkFriends

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman

ArtThinkYouPersonGoSay

Service drives a lot of my decisions.

Mickey Drexler

ServiceDecisionsDrivesLot

The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.

Mitch McConnell

PeopleAmericanNewUsMajority

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

Luca Guadagnino

OpinionDesignGeniusFurniture

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

Christopher Lee

DreamsDeterminationCourageManOld

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

Bobby Moore

WinYouLoseGoalGamesNever

'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

Bryan Greenberg

GoodCultureNew YorkCoolWorld

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

William Floyd

FearFateFriendsIslandDestruction

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