"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin


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"When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions."

Bah. Stupid wizard I smash you!

Dark Archive Bella Sara Charter Superscriber

Yet another reason he was our country's greatest president.

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I thought being a loan shark paid the best interest.


That's just because they didn't have educational loans in Ben Franklin's day.


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As a descendant, give me all of your $100 bills.

Liberty's Edge

Sebastian wrote:
Yet another reason he was our country's greatest president.

Damn you! Making me look for a "Like" button!!

Liberty's Edge

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."


"Fart proudly."


Ashe Ravenheart wrote:
Sebastian wrote:
Yet another reason he was our country's greatest president.
Damn you! Making me look for a "Like" button!!

Heathy and Sebastian wrote the books...Shiny just edited them down to a comic strip.

The Exchange

Isn't he also the one that said the best way to end poverty is to not let people become comfortable in it?

Liberty's Edge

Andrew R wrote:
Isn't he also the one that said the best way to end poverty is to not let people become comfortable in it?

[strikethat]No, no I don't think he did.[/strikethat]

Oops, I think he did:

"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

Dark Archive Bella Sara Charter Superscriber

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I think my favorite Ben Franklin quote is:

"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."

We'd all be better if we could appreciate the wisdom in these words...

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Silly Uni...

That wasn't Ben, that was founding father Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Dark Archive Bella Sara Charter Superscriber

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Roosevelt? I thought he was the midnight ride guy.

Wait...I'm thinking of Robocop. He did the midnight ride after signing the Declaration of Independence.


I call foul on this. It was Alexander Hamilton. The best president that ever lived and on the denomination most favored by dealers and strippers.

Get your internet facts straight, you peons.


I am a vast collector of said denomination.

Now, will you all do me a solid? B1tches leave. I'm not a nice guy.


Sebastian wrote:


"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."

My vote's for Aaron Burr.

The Exchange

Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Sebastian wrote:


"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."

My vote's for Aaron Burr.

Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?


Crimson Jester wrote:
Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Sebastian wrote:


"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."

My vote's for Aaron Burr.
Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?

Because Aaron Burr was the bad-ass of the Founding Fathers.

If he'd been French, he would've been Jean-Paul Belmondo.

If he'd been black, he would've been Samuel Jackson.

If he'd been in a Western, he'd have been Clint Eastwood.

"Aaron Burr: The First Name in Founding Father Bad-Assery"


Ben Franklin, on the other hand, sucks.


Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
Doodlebug Anklebiter wrote:
Sebastian wrote:


"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."

My vote's for Aaron Burr.
Why because he can stand there calmly while another guy shot at him and aim?

Because Aaron Burr was the bad-ass of the Founding Fathers.

If he'd been French, he would've been Jean-Paul Belmondo.

If he'd been black, he would've been Samuel Jackson.

If he'd been in a Western, he'd have been Clint Eastwood.

"Aaron Burr: The First Name in Founding Father Bad-Assery"

If he'd been Mexican, he would have been Santa Anna.

America dodged a bullet with that creep. (Even if Hamilton didn't)


Genius has limits, stupidity knows no bounds.

Understanding is a three-edged sword.


All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

-Benjamin Franklin

Silver Crusade

Do, or do not. There is no try.

-Benjamin Franklin


Wipe them out. All of them.

-Benjamin Franklin


Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.

-Benjamin Franklin


Buddhism is for lovers.

-Benjamin Franklin


Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Philadelphian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

-Benjamin Franklin


Gaawp.

-Chewbacca

The Exchange

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

-Benjamin Franklin


A fool and his money are soon elected.

-Benjamin Franklin


George? He can blow me. Toss the tea bags over.

-Benjamin Franklin.

Silver Crusade

There's the Saigon whore that bit my nose off!

-Benjamin Franklin


Okay Sosa; You wanna fnck with me? You fncking with the best! You wanna fnck with me? Okay. You little cockroaches... come on. You wanna play games? Okay, I play with you; come on. Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!

-Benjamin Franklin

Silver Crusade

Alexander Hamilton: I've never seen so many dead hookers in all my life!

Benjamin Franklin: Lord knows I have.

The Exchange

Hookers and Blow, thats how I roll.
-Sebastian

Um the hookers have beards.
-Urizen.


"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken!"
-Benjamin Franklin


You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!

-Benjamin Franklin

The Exchange

Sebastian wrote:
Yet another reason he was our country's greatest president.

That must have been when he wasnt indulging himself in the carnal pleasures of France...


AARON! BURR!


That's what your mother said last night, Hamilton.

-Benjamin Franklin

Liberty's Edge

All your base are belong to us.
-Benjamin Franklin.

The Exchange

Patrick Curtin wrote:

You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!

-Benjamin Franklin

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Wasn't that quote about George Washington?


Crimson Jester wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:

You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!

-Benjamin Franklin

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Wasn't that quote about George Washington?

Aaron Burr, actually. AB was actually a steampunk cyborg sent back from 1865 to murder Bathsheba Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's grandmother. Benjamin Franklin, actually a captain in the Union Air Dirigibles, followed him back in time to stop his evil plot. The the timestream got all screwed up.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Crimson Jester wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:

You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her! That's what he does! That's ALL he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her fnckin' heart out!

-Benjamin Franklin

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Wasn't that quote about George Washington?
Aaron Burr, actually. AB was actually a steampunk cyborg sent back from 1865 to murder Bathsheba Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's grandmother. Benjamin Franklin, actually a captain in the Union Air Dirigibles, followed him back in time to stop his evil plot. The the timestream got all screwed up.

This. I usually don't see eye-to-eye with Comrade Curtin, but sometimes he knows his shiznit.

Liberty's Edge

Gator's b++!!es better be wearing a jimmy!
-JFK


Burgomeister of Troll Town wrote:
This. I usually don't see eye-to-eye with Comrade Curtin, but sometimes he knows his shiznit.

Da, Tovarisch. Eenughdah.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Burgomeister of Troll Town wrote:
This. I usually don't see eye-to-eye with Comrade Curtin, but sometimes he knows his shiznit.

Da, Tovarisch. Eenughdah.

*CHOMP*


*OWWCH!*

Hey anyone got some way of keeping carnivorous Canadian chompers off me? What scares Canadians? Should I sing Gens du pays?

The Exchange

If you want to confuse Canadians ask them who Michael Bublee is. He is one of the Great Singers to come out of Canada and no one there has ever heard of him...

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