Quotes by Franklin, Benjamin

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work gre >>

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. Ho >>

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the g >>

Quotations about Ambition

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will >>

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot >>

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. >>

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Franklin, Benjamin