C.C. Franklin Quotes

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Little leaks sink the ship.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

An old man in a house is a good sign.

But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Praise little, dispraise less.

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Let the experiment be made.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Death takes no bribes.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Bad gains are true losses.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

Love well, whip well.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.