A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Benjamin Franklin

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

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Juvenal

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

John Ford

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Juvenal

I apologize to those supporting Wii U about the lack of new titles from Nintendo in January and February but please understand we will have new titles to offer from March onward.

Satoru Iwata

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

Thomas Nashe

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Damon Galgut

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Charles Spurgeon

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish.

C. J. Cherryh

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

Larry Winget

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Jose Marti

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Robin S. Sharma

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

Cate Marvin

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