"Here comes the orator with his flood..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
More by Benjamin Franklin
“The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.”
“We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.”
“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.”
More on Communication
“I was always annoyed by too much explaining.”
“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
“People forget facts, but they remember stories.”
More on Logic
“There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"”
“When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?”
“To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.”