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PETE DU PONT That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
DAVE BARRY Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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JON BON JOVI When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY He was a very jovial fellow who would meet at the taverns, discussing the latest John Locke book or ...
CHRIS MULLINS The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic America...
ANNALEE NEWITZ One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN . . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at ...
MARK TWAIN To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because
he is sufficient for himself, must ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...
ARISTOTLE Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worl...
MATTHEW STEWART We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. Ben Frank...
E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
JANE AUSTEN Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to...
RASHEED OGUNLARU The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS I must plough my furrow alone.
EARL OF ROSEBERY Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
JAMES CASH PENNEY What do they have to lose by interviewing the suspect? Either he's going to bury himself or exonerat...
HARLAND BRAUN Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without...
ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed t...
WALTER ISAACSON One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
JILL LEPORE Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order f...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJA...
PHOEBE STONE An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Either drive this camel to pasture or leave the country.
TURKISH PROVERB People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure ...
SHARRON ANGLE Bill Clinton wanted to survive. And Bill Clinton wanted to thrive, not just for himself, although th...
MONICA CROWLEY No-limit hold 'em shows so well on TV, and games with small buy-ins have helped no-limit hold 'em (t...
MASON MALMUTH Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h...
PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to acce...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Frankl...
RICK RIORDAN Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL You have two choices in life. You either focus on your strength to thrive or your weakness that lowe...
PHILIP T. M. I think we moved the ball, but something would bog the drive down. Either it was a penalty or a turn...
DAVID REEVES He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII This petition seeks USDA action to force zoos to comply with the Animal Welfare Act, either by provi...
ELLIOT KATZ ...What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
WILL ROGERS He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever ...
LORD HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES There are two primary ways that drive-by downloads are done, either through a vulnerability in IE it...
GARY SCHARE To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and ho...
MEISTER ECKHART He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a...
SUZANNE COLLINS Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
ANON. Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
ANONYMOUS If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; aft...
PITIGRILLI If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
RICK SANTELLI People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to in...
SUNDAY ADELAJA He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE Ones life doesn't depend on the capability to survive rather the drive and desire to thrive.
SHADDON KELLY He would do himself, and I think the country, a favor by withdrawing.
CHRISTOPHER DODD A real man can see your problems & accept you for them; if he really cared, he would help you to the...
JILLIAN JOYCE AARSVOLD When BERTRAND RUSSELL For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection...
ORIGEN Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly...
VIKTOR FRANKL Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul...
VICTOR FRANKL Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
E. M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
EMILE M. CIORAN Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy...
JAMES ALLEN He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he viola...
THOMAS PAINE He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violat...
THOMAS PAINE Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
UNKNOWN He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to hims...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written b...
MAX HEINDEL Looking ahead, we continue on track to build Schering- Plough into a company with the strength and b...
FRED HASSAN If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to hims...
GEORGE ORWELL If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increa...
RICHARD STALLMAN He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereaf...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN