Benjamin Franklin High

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin franklin, benjamin, franklin and/or high:

    “Opportunity is the great bawd.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “These are days when no one should rely unduly on his “competence.” Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “From low to high doth dissolution climb,
    And sink from high to low, along a scale
    Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)