C.C. Franklin Quotes

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

He that's secure is not safe.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Necessitous men are not free men.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.