Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Age

• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

• 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

  Education, Wise, Country

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

• Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Men

• Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Life, Crazy

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• All would live long, but none would be old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Age, Would Be

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1749

• The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Distance, Men

• Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Long, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Age, Aging

  "Poor Richard's Almanack".

• Reckless youth makes rueful age.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Youth, Reckless

• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

• An old young man, will be a young old man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Men, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

• The Golden Age was never the present age.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Golden, Golden Age

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

• If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Time, Life Is Short

• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Believe, Bye

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

• Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Years, Religion

  Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memoirs of His Early Life”, p.79

• I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Weight Loss, Mind

• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Time, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

• We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Writing, House

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.514

• That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, People

• For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Age, May

  Benjamin Franklin, Mason Locke Weems (1817). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin”, p.95

• It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Understanding, Ignorant, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (1856). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters, official and private, not hitherto published ; with notes and a life of the author”, p.526

• When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

  Benjamin Franklin “Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography”, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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