The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,...
BEN JOHNSON He's anywhere between 92 and 96, and every once in a while he touched 98. He didn't hide the ball ve...
BEN JOHNSON I feel like I've been a little too timid lately. I have to let it all hang out.
BEN JOHNSON I'm in a family of six. And I'm also engaged, and my grandparents want to come. The biggest group be...
BEN JOHNSON It starts with (San Antonio) Churchill. They're the closest things to a super team this region has t...
BEN JOHNSON I've shown there's not going to be a hole in the outfield - although (Thursday) I proved otherwise o...
BEN JOHNSON While we believe it is unlikely ivory-bills have survived in Georgia, we do expect to identify locat...
BEN JOHNSON I had to slow the game down and pick my spots when to be aggressive. That's one of the biggest ways ...
BEN JOHNSON Current opportunities for less-skilled workers to come in legally are laughable when compared with t...
BEN JOHNSON Without i.Shop this level of integration would not have been practical. Both R.O. Writer and Delphi ...
BEN JOHNSON We're having a full-fledged roommate cleaning of the casa.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
BEN JOHNSON Talking is the disease of age.
BEN JOHNSON Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JOHNSON Yesterday (Tuesday) we put ourselves into position to do what we did today (Wednesday). I was overly...
BEN JOHNSON I would feel much better if we would have some consistency going in from the other spring tournament...
BEN JOHNSON We're definitely going to have our work cut out for us. (Corpus Christi) King, the defending distric...
BEN JOHNSON People can put things in your food and drinks to sabotage you, like they did to me in Seoul in 1988....
BEN JOHNSON I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that base...
BEN JOHNSON It is very important that our people using the roadways realize how important it is to watch out for...
BEN JOHNSON Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.
BEN JOHNSON Not at all. We saw what they did to [Andy] Pettitte and Houston in the second game of the season. At...
BEN JOHNSON They confuse us all. They all look alike.
BEN JOHNSON (SHERIFF) He's done so much for the community, and spends so much time helping everybody. He always gave the e...
BEN JOHNSON (SHERIFF) This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.
BEN JOHNSON (SHERIFF) There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income ...
BEN JOHNSON (SALES) Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the cries for help were numerous. This money will go...
BEN JOHNSON (SALES) We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just...
BEN JOHNSON (SALES) Some properties doubled in price overnight. People were bidding up prices, not even caring about the...
BEN JOHNSON (SALES) The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unele...
BEN JOHNSON (FRONTPAGEMAGAZINE.COM) We're having a full-fledged roommate cleaning of the casa.
BEN JOHNSON (STUDENT) I had to slow the game down and pick my spots when to be aggressive. That's one of the biggest ways ...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I've shown there's not going to be a hole in the outfield - although (Thursday) I proved otherwise o...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I was still disappointed in myself I didn't get the bunt down because I feel I can do it, but I gues...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) We are adapting and modifying what we know about integrated electronic systems in the automotive ind...
BEN JOHNSON (PRODUCT MANAGEMENT) Things escalated to a level that should not have happened. We're just lucky that nobody got hurt.
BEN JOHNSON (MAKAH TRIBE) It's a sad thing that's happened. Sea Shepherd has been pushing buttons -- people react. People can ...
BEN JOHNSON (MAKAH TRIBE) I hate it. I hate losing. I always have, always will.
BEN JOHNSON (FOOTBALL PLAYER) I need to be aggressive, to let it go.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) We had two men on, and I couldn't get a bunt down.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) He goes out and plays hard every day, ... Lately, he's been hitting gaps, a lot of triples and doubl...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I feel like I've been a little too timid lately. I have to let it all hang out.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I faced him quite a few times and fared pretty well.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I went from a state of disappointment, in not getting the bunt down, to disbelief in a matter of two...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I was still disappointed in myself that I didn't get the bunt down because I know I can, ... but I g...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) Timing is everything. Hopefully, we'll keep that momentum rolling into the playoffs.
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) He showed me the ropes. A lot of the struggles I had in the minors, he's had as a ballplayer. We cli...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I still feel like I have to make the team. Here, nothing is given to me. I have to earn it. That's a...
BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY