English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Benjamin Franklin quote: "When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep."

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

Benjamin Franklin

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Laurence Stern quote: "'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of..."
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Stern
Gloria Swanson quote: "Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what..."
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. Gloria Swanson
We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything... They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it. William S. Burroughs
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. Stanley Crouch
We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked if he thought the fate of man was unalterable. He thought it was. Gunter Grass
You did study art there?" Gennie persisted. Grant watched the smoke rise and the haze of heat that rippled the air. "Why?"Because it's obvious from that wicked little caricature you drew of me that you have talent, and that you've had training. What are you doing with it?"With what?"Gennie drew her brows together in frustration. "The talent and the training. I'd have heard of you if you were painting."I'm not," he said simply."Then what are you doing?"What I want. Weren't you going to make a... Nora Roberts
Henry Rollins quote: "Love heals scars love left"
Love heals scars love left Henry Rollins
Milan Kundera quote: "Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?"
Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero? Milan Kundera
Voltaire quote: "If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."
If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones. Voltaire
Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like " I am Starfishhh! James Patterson
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. Margaret Atwood
Ja Rule quote: "I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife."
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife. Ja Rule
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl? Clive Cussler
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions. Philip Pullman