#era

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#able man #happy #happy man #idle #man

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#i #involves #liberating #me #plate

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. ↗

— George Stigler

#columbia university #during #group #i #later

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#i #i remember #remember #thinking #want

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ↗

— Robert Frost

#his #liberal #man #own #quarrel

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. ↗

— Robert Frost

#civilized society #doubtful #eccentricity #point #sanity

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#allowed #believed #complete #confidence #death

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#allowed #believed #complete #confidence #death

I have no literary fears. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #literary