The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- You may delay, but time will not.
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Best Quotes
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
- I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
- If we try to give smile to others, unknowingly it comes back to our face.
- It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Sociophobia kills someone's confidence, there are a lot of fear apart from sociophobia that kills someone's personality.
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.