C.C. Franklin Quotes

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Fast, worship, and seek Him.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Success has ruined many a man.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

In the dark, all cats are grey.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

Families ought to be noisy.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.