A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote Topics

Easy Foresee Hard See Tis

Quote Author

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

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

James Russell Lowell

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

John Webster

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

Henry Steele Commager

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Philip James Bailey

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

Martial

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Rumi

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

John Godfrey Saxe

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Henri Poincare

It is easy to see the faults of others... it is hard to see our own.

Gautama Buddha

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Henry Ford

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

Charles Kingsley

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

Eustace Budgell

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

Colonel Sanders

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

Jean-Luc Godard

A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors