Quotes of Franklin - somelinesforyou

“ 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 that Benjamin Franklin said it first. ”

- Unknown

“ Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin. ”

- James Thurber

“ Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark. ”

- Carl Sa
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