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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.


Benjamin Franklin

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The investment in knowledge brings about good interest if you can afford it. When you are too poor, ...
MARIANA FULGER One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
JILL LEPORE The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property inter...
BENJAMIN F. WADE Learn as much as you can while you are young, this is best investment that always pays best interest...
LILY CHATTERJEE Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
TERENCE Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can c...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIP BROOKS I'm really proud of him. Mike just kept coming back for his team. He worked harder than anyone in th...
TREVOR CARRITT A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little a...
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart
LAO TZU How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?
ARISTOTLE But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the...
VANESSA KERRY Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT Investment made in health is best indeed, as it pays the best dividends
TARUN UPADHYAYA And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes re...
BIBLE Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait...
PLATO The epicure puts his purse into his belly
PROVERB If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.
CONOR MCGREGOR He had a lot of hats. But, in all his jobs, his number one interest was always what was best for Kin...
CHARLES GARDNER If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ...
NELSON MANDELA No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it...
JOHN HAY WHITNEY Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of ...
FRANCINE RIVERS For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge ...
MARIO PUZO Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of underst...
AMY REED Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave h...
JOHN MILTON God created woman from the side of man. Not from his head to be above him, nor from his feet to be t...
UNKNOWN A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor fr...
CONFUCIUS I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most consta...
WILLIAM SAROYAN No man does his best work in any one day of the year
DANIEL GUGGENHEIM No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his...
CLAUDE MONET Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority whic...
JAMES SMITHSON A Lannister always pays his debts.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what inst...
WILLIAM BERNBACH An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile
AL DIAMOND He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's consti...
JANE AUSTEN Let him come to Charcy, with his hithertos and his wherefores, and there he will find me, and with a...
C.S. PACAT Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, k...
DOROTHEUS OF GAZA No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judg...
JAMES MADISON A man lives with an interest in life to crave for others’ like on him for self-love only, but if h...
ANUJ SOMANY A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries t...
DAISY BATES The old man had a big gash in his arm and a hole in his head, a small hole in his head. So we were k...
ANDY AKAMINE I’m gonna take a nap, Heaven,” he said, wanting away from her to clear his head. He didn’t lik...
J.M. DARHOWER People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
JOHN TYLER You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart, his passport shall be made and crowns for co...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no ...
SUZANNE COLLINS The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from hi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke ...
MATT COOKE The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
IRISH PROVERB What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about B...
LARRY HARVEY A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
THOMAS HOBBES Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzz...
AESOP A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on...
GENE RODDENBERRY I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up w...
JAMES MARSH One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only ...
MIDGE DECTER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER No one can destroy a man than his deeds.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No girl can jump from thinking a man can rape her to falling head over heels for him.
MYA ROBARTS One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA No-one can take that away from me anymore.
KIM CLIJSTERS It is in the best interest of a man to become a Karma-Yogi and work to the best of his abilities and...
SAM VEDA If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must tak...
PARACELSUS One who walks in harmony with the Will of the True Guru, obtains the greatest glory. The Exalted Nam...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, yo...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We must never judge a man on what road he chooses to take We must give him freedom to make his own d...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of...
DONALD GOINES I scent wich pays the best, an' then / Go into it baldheaded.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN