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Benjamin Franklin

  • Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Education begins with life.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Humility makes great men twice honorable... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The Family of Fools is ancient... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Yet, in buying Goods, 'tis best to pay ready Money, because,... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a- borrowing goes a-sorrowing... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Constant dropping wears away stones... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a great Pennyworth, pause a while.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Love well, whip well... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Old Hob was lately married in the Night, What needed Day, his fair young Wife is light.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Wife from thy Spouse each blemish hide More than from all the World beside: Let DECENCY be all thy Pride.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • To all apparent Beauties blind. Each Blemish strikes an envious Mind.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Men and Melons are hard to know.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereafter.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that drinks fast pays slow... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise?... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Men take more pains to mask than to mend.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • I know not which lives more unnatural lives, Obeying husbands, or commanding wives... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that lives well, is learned enough... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Three good meals a day is bad living.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • If you would be loved, love and be lovable.... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • Money makes money, and the money that money makes, makes more money.... Benjamin Franklin {view}