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Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.


Benjamin Franklin

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Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
BIBLE A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT Happiness is psychological. It's a mans greed that makes it physical.
BRANDON JAMES Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE A rich mans dream comes true only through a poor man.
KOWSALAPATHY What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
UNKNOWN A soft Tongue may strike hard.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15
BIBLE A mans true experience offers a great deal of observing what is found to be of value
BOAZ AKUDE The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.
JENSON BUTTON Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA To forget is Gods gift to man,to forgive is mans gift to God.
KOWSALAPATHY I was Raised Round Junkies,Drunkies and real sluts Holding a poor mans rifle when there is beef not ...
NOBLE DA GENIUS There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
OSCAR WILDE The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to ...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
BERNARD CORNWELL A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...
GEORGES CLéMENCEAU No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worl...
MATTHEW STEWART I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a ...
LARRY HARVEY If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m...
MAYA ANGELOU The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team mem...
TOM KRISTENSEN For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I r...
JACKY ICKX I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith
THOMAS CARLYLE We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit...
RAJA Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
THOMAS CARLYLE Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
THOMAS CARLYLE Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
JOHN HOSKINS To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to...
CARROLL SHELBY It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank...
JON BON JOVI 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 Le Mans runs on a longer track with 48 cars. At Daytona, with more cars and shorter run, drivers are...
TOMMY ARCHER Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER To remove mans comforts he has grown so accustomed to is the true test of his reinvention, whatever ...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Ben Frank...
E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the be...
BILL AUBERLEN My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t...
MARIO ANDRETTI When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
BIBLE To thrive in life you need three bones. A wish bone, a back bone, and a funny bone.
ANONYMOUS And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE The test of mans determination to leave a legacy behind, a fraction of his vision and thought, to di...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh bones.
BIBLE HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJA...
PHOEBE STONE It's mans duty to exhibit all the love he can possibly exhibit & exhaust on this plane,because after...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
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