We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.


Benjamin Netanyahu

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I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT
I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER
Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI