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missouri dem 2 Donating Member (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:10 PM
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Timely quotation

"For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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seito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:15 PM
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1. Very appropriate n/t
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:23 PM
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2. This quote is really good. Wisdom that * doesn't have.
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hopein08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 06:31 PM
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3. That quote fits a lot of things perfectly. Why can't Franklin...
be alive and powerful today? We'd be so much better off.

Thanks for posting.
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