enjoiskaterguy
12-30-2007, 01:54 AM
******Benjamin Franklin quotes*******(more to come as I do more research)
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "
" I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating. "
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. "
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"He that can have patience can have what he will. "
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse"
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning"
" The discontented man finds no easy chair. "
" What has become clear to you since we last met? " No nation was ever ruined by trade. "
" Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. "
" Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
" An old young man, will be a young old man. " At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. "
" If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. "
" Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. "
" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "
" Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. "
" The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "
" He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. "
" 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. "
" While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. "
" If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. "
" Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. "
" Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "
" If you desire many things, many things will seem few. "
" He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. "
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper."
" A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. "
" Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. "
" When you're finished changing, you're finished. "
" Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. "
" A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. "
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do"
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
"Beauty and folly are old companions."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
"You may delay, but time will not."
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "
" I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating. "
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. "
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
"He that can have patience can have what he will. "
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse"
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning"
" The discontented man finds no easy chair. "
" What has become clear to you since we last met? " No nation was ever ruined by trade. "
" Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. "
" Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. "
" An old young man, will be a young old man. " At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. "
" If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. "
" Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. "
" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "
" Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. "
" The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "
" He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. "
" 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. "
" While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. "
" If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. "
" Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. "
" Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "
" If you desire many things, many things will seem few. "
" He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. "
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper."
" A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. "
" Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. "
" When you're finished changing, you're finished. "
" Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. "
" A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. "
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do"
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
"Beauty and folly are old companions."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
"You may delay, but time will not."
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."