C.C. Franklin Quotes

Applause waits on success.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

There is no little enemy

Observe all men, thyself most.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The best is the cheapest.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.

The world is run by the people who show up.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.