Franklin P Jones Famous Quotes
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.
"The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back."
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Franklin P Jones Quotations
"If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way."
Lois McMaster Bujold
"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
Cicero
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Thomas Carlyle
"She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what."
Kate Chopin
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Terence
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
John Stuart Mill
"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Richard Milhous Nixon
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Sir Walter Besant
But all God's angels come to us disguised...
James Russell Lowell
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan