#thou

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#genius #like #mine #silver #without

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hast #her #house #never #never take

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #goodness #grand #great #great man

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hour #minute #since #sure #thou

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. ↗

— Michael Franti

#alone #change #climate #climate change #global

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly. ↗

— George Stigler

#before #central #chicago #close #department

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#black #black or white #come #good #good actor

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural. ↗

— Cathy Freeman

#grade #i #looked #me #natural

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cambridge #corner #grow #i #quietly