Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 54

• By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Ornaments

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Book, Reading

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• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Divine, Duty, Mankind

  Andrew M. Allison, Willard Cleon Skousen, M. Richard Maxfield, Benjamin Franklin (1982). “The Real Benjamin Franklin”

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• 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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• All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Liberty, Serious

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Weight Loss, Mind

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• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Savages, Manners

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.368, Hackett Publishing

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• Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Wife, House

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Liberty, Leisure

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.250

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• Industry need not wish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wish, Needs, Industry

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.237

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• It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Air, Swings, Sea

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• Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Poor Richard, Liberality

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Boys, Differences

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Aug. 1752

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• If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Beauty, Sex

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Day, Men, Pork

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.170, Penguin

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• Half-wits talk much, but say little.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Half, Littles, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Powerful, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.79

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• Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Provoking

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• There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Differences, Youth

  "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

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• A friend in need is a friend indeed!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Needs, Friendship Memories

  Donald Mackintosh, Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Collection of Gaelic proverbs and familiar phrases ... To which is added, 'The way to wealth' by Benjamin Franklin”, p.17

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• The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Marriage, Order

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Running, Careers

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The life of Benjamin Franklin: to which are added Essays by the same Author : Mit einem Wörterbuch ; Zum Schul- u. Privatgebrauch”, p.2

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• Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Death, Men

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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