C.C. Franklin Quotes

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

If you want to please God, believe God.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

You may delay, but time will not.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.