Quote #37
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
More from Benjamin Franklin
- Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their…
- Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
- Cited as being from a December 1913 speech by William Manley German in the Canadian House of Commons, on what he said Franklin claimed 'was…
- Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France.
- ...in the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and indust…
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
- Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. (He seized the lightning from the Gods and the scepter from the Tyrants.)-Turgot