C.C. Franklin Quotes

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Getting it done is my reward.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

Great hopes make everything great possible

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

When you are done changing, you're done.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

The proof of gold is fire.

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

He that takes a wife, takes care

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Constant dropping wears away stones

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?