Inscription on a Bible,Epigram- The Works of Michael Bruce ed:with memoir and notes by Andrew B Grosart, Murray And Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh (1864).
Agri Quotes, 25 November 2013, Zeenews India http://zeenews.india.com/mahindrasamriddhi/agriawards/agri.html,
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Section 2, member 3, Air rectified. With a digression of the Air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
This seems to have been first attributed to Franklin in The New Age Magazine Vol. 66 (1958), and the earliest appearance of it yet located is in Coronet magazine, Vol. 34 (1953), p. 27, where it was attributed to a Louise Stein; it thus seems likely to have been derived from an earlier statement of Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943) : "At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package".
Misattributed
Address at the Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Education Association http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html (4 April 1957)
1950s
On his acting career.
Interview interview (1995)
