Benjamin > Benjamin's Quotes

“Life is too short to spend any time focusing on the negative.”
― Benjamin M. Weilert

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
― Babe Ruth

“Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.”
― Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review