A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Constant dropping wears away stones

Benjamin Franklin

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Away Constant Dropping Stones Wears

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Benjamin Franklin

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

Ovid

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Lucretius

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much... stones to remembrance. And it's like there's constant stones of remembrance of what God has done.

Jeremy Camp

My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

Joan Rivers

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.

Robert Smithson

Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white.

Mindy Kaling

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Joey Kramer

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

George H. W. Bush

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

Rashad Evans

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Elbert Hubbard

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Herman Melville

Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.

Charles Churchill

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

David Perlmutter

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

Henry A. Wallace

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