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Who IS this guy!?!?!

buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
edited September 2006 in General Banter
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
What is serving God? Tis doing Good to Man.[/quote
The worst wheel of a cart makes the most noise.
The poor have little, Beggars none; The rich too much Enough not one.
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.
He that speaks ill of the Mare, will buy her.
If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.


http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote21.htm

-bf

Comments

  • colleencolleen
    edited September 2006
    ok you all had your chance...
    and bf has waited long enough

    your answer is Benjamin Franklin,
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited September 2006
    You go, girlfriend!

    -bf
  • MagwangMagwang Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Another quote attributed to Ben Franklin:

    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

    :::
  • not1not2not1not2 Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Magwang wrote:
    Another quote attributed to Ben Franklin:

    "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

    :::


    lol

    that's funny. I like the one about growing tired of things after 3 days, too.

    _/\_
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Surprise trivia question:

    Who is the most often quoted author in the English language?
  • KrisPistoffersonKrisPistofferson
    edited September 2006
    I bet it's Mark Twain.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2006
    I guess it's a toss-up between Stratford Will and James I & VI's translators of the Bible. But it's just a guess.
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Harold Robbins.

    -bf
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Actually, it's probably that prolific and long-lived author, A. Non.
  • buddhafootbuddhafoot Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Hahahaha.... good one, Simon.

    He sure does get a lot of credit for most of the "good stuff".

    -bf
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Nope, nope and nope.

    It's Pope!
  • colleencolleen
    edited September 2006
    Shakespeare
  • colleencolleen
    edited September 2006
    ] In addition, Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the literature and history of the English-speaking world, according to the Oxford English Dictionary
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2006
    That's what I like about Shakespeare: his plays are just stuffed with quotations.
  • Unknown
    edited September 2006
    And if you're reading a work of his for the first time, you come across a now-common phrase, and you grimace in disgust and think to yourself, "Cliché."

    And then you remember that he's the one who came up with it.

    Oops. Sorry, Will.
  • Unknown
    edited September 2006
    And Simon, was your post meant to be funny or am I reading too much into it? Quotations in a play...
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited September 2006
    Brigid wrote:
    Nope, nope and nope.

    It's Pope!


    Sorry, the pope doesn't speak English (none of them) - not as a first language anyway.

    I would have gone with Oscar Wilde or Groucho Marx.

    Palzang
  • KrisPistoffersonKrisPistofferson
    edited September 2006
    Man, there are a lot of things that are over-rated, but respected because they are old. Think of a lot of the stuff you had to read in high school and you'll get the picture, Shakespeare, on the other hand, is one of the most wonderful things ever to happen to Western culture. I've always wondered why a religion to rival Christianity never sprung up around his plays. He covers just as much of the human condition as any holy book does.
  • BrigidBrigid Veteran
    edited September 2006
    colleen wrote:
    ] In addition, Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the literature and history of the English-speaking world, according to the Oxford English Dictionary

    Dam, I was sure it was Pope.
  • SimonthepilgrimSimonthepilgrim Veteran
    edited September 2006
    ramblingonmyway wrote:
    And Simon, was your post meant to be funny or am I reading too much into it? Quotations in a play...

    Indeed, ROMW, a very old joke!

    And, Palzang-la, Nicolas Breakspeare (Pope Adrian IV) was a 'Saxon', i.e a non-Norman Englishman, so must have spoken 'English' as his first language. He would, however, have been as unintelligible to us as a Glaswegian!
  • PalzangPalzang Veteran
    edited September 2006
    ...or a Yorkie. Thanks, I didn't know there was a Saxon pope, though I can't say I've ever had much interest in the Roman church.

    Palzang
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