C.C. Franklin Quotes

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.