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Quotes Of Benjamin Franklin
"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a Sun-dial in the shade?'
"You may delay, but time will not."
Wish not so much to live long, as to live well.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost;
for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost;
and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost;
being overtaken and slain by the Enemy,
all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
"Some people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five."
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
"Well done, is better than well said."
"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
"Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."
"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
"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."
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else."
"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well."
"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Fish and visitors smell in three days."
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