Half a truth is often a great lie.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
- Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
- The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Best Quotes
- A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- If you want to create peace you know about love and nature.
- The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
- If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
- Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
- You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.