The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
- The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Beauty and folly are old companions.
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
- Time is money.
- He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Half a truth is often a great lie.
Best Quotes
- I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
- At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.