Selected Quotes

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Nine men in ten are would be suicides. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"When you're finished changing, you're finished. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"He that can have patience can have what he will. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. "
   --Benjamin Franklin

"‘It is said that a lady once admiringly asked Zukertort how many moves he could see ahead, and that he replied, “Madam, if the position is sufficiently simple, and I look a long time, I can sometimes see ‘one’ move ahead.”’ "
   --Zukertort, September 1914 American Chess Bulletin

"I only think one move ahead, but it is the right one "
   --attributed to Horowitz Jaffe Réti Capablanca and doubtless others

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. "
   --Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US Supreme Court justice 1933-2020

"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical. "
   --Yogi Berra

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. "
   --Yogi Berra

"It’s déjà vu all over again. "
   --Yogi Berra

"We made too many wrong mistakes. "
   --Yogi Berra

"If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else. "
   --Yogi Berra

"It gets late early out here. "
   --Yogi Berra

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. "
   --Yogi Berra

"Even Napoleon had his Watergate. "
   --Yogi Berra