YUKS
Quotes page 12
Benjamin
Franklin
Said:
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between
two cats.
A good
conscience is a continual Christmas.
A great empire,
like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
A house is not
a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
A learned
blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
A life of
leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in
the grave.
A man wrapped
up in himself makes a very small bundle.
A penny saved
is a penny earned.
A place for
everything, everything in its place.
A small leak
can sink a great ship.
Absence
sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Admiration is
the daughter of ignorance.
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.
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.
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.
Any society
that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve
neither and lose both.
Anyone who
trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Applause waits
on success.
As we must
account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
At twenty years
of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Be at war with
your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a
better man.
Be slow in
choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Beauty and
folly are old companions.
Beer is living
proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Being ignorant
is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Beware of
little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Beware the
hobby that eats.
Buy what thou
hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
By failing to
prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Certainty? In
this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Content makes
poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Creditors have
better memories than debtors.
Diligence is
the mother of good luck.
Distrust and
caution are the parents of security.
Do good to your
friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Do not fear
mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Do not squander
time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Dost thou love
life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Each year one
vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Eat to please
thyself, but dress to please others.
Either write
something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Employ thy time
well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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.
Experience
keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fatigue is the
best pillow.
For having
lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better
information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important
subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Gain may be
temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and
certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Games lubricate
the body and the mind.
Genius without
education is like silver in the mine.
God helps those
who help themselves.
God works
wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Guests, like
fish, begin to smell after three days.
Half a truth is
often a great lie.
Having been
poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He does not
possess wealth; it possesses him.
He that can
have patience can have what he will.
He that
composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
He that
displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them
borrowed.
He that has
done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you
yourself have obliged.
He that is good
for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He that is of
the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything
for money.
He that lives
upon hope will die fasting.
He that raises
a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader
mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
He that rises
late must trot all day.
He that speaks
much, is much mistaken.
He that waits
upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
He that won't
be counseled can't be helped.
He that would
live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
He that's
secure is not safe.
He who falls in
love with himself will have no rivals.
Hear reason, or
she'll make you feel her.
Hide not your
talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Honesty is the
best policy.
How few there
are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend
them.
Human felicity
is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by
little advantages that occur every day.
Hunger is the
best pickle.
I conceive that
the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false
estimates they have made of the value of things.
I didn't fail
the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
I guess I don't
so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
I look upon
death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed
in the morning.
I saw few die
of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
I should have
no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting
only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of
the first.
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.
If a man could
have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If a man
empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment
in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If a man
empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
If all printers
were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend
nobody, there would be very little printed.
If passion
drives you, let reason hold the reins.
If time be of
all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
If you desire
many things, many things will seem few.
If you know how
to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
If you would be
loved, love and be lovable.
If you would be
loved, love, and be loveable.
If you would
have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
If you would
know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
If you would
not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading
or do things worth writing.
If you would
not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth
reading, or do things worth the writing.
In general,
mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature
requires.
In the affairs
of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
In this world
nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
In this world
nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Industry need
not wish.
It is a grand
mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain
that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly
virtuous.
It is easier to
prevent bad habits than to break them.
It is much
easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
It is only when
the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
It is the eye
of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine
clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
It is the
working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
It takes many
good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Keep your eyes
wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Laws too gentle
are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Leisure is the
time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain
the lazy one never.
Life's Tragedy
is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Lost time is
never found again.
Many a man
thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Many foxes grow
gray but few grow good.
Many people die
at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Marriage is the
most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid
happiness.
Mine is better
than ours.
Money has never
made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce
happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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.
Most people
return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with
ingratitude.
Necessity never
made a good bargain.
Never confuse
motion with action.
Never leave
that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Never take a
wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Nine men in ten
are would be suicides.
No nation was
ever ruined by trade.
Observe all
men, thyself most.
One today is
worth two tomorrows.
Our necessities
never equal our wants.
Rather go to
bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Rebellion
against tyrants is obedience to God.
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.
Remember that
credit is money.
Savages we call
them because their manners differ from ours.
She laughs at
everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Since thou are
not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Some people die
at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Speak ill of no
man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Take time for
all things: great haste makes great waste.
Tell me and I
forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The absent are
never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
The art of
acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
The
Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch
it yourself.
The
Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.
You have to catch it yourself.
The definition
of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different
results.
The
discontented man finds no easy chair.
The doors of
wisdom are never shut.
The doorstep to
the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
The eye of the
master will do more work than both his hands.
The first
mistake in public business is the going into it.
The man who
trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
The strictest
law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
The U. S.
Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to
catch up with it yourself.
The use of
money is all the advantage there is in having it.
The way to see
by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The worst wheel
of the cart makes the most noise.
There are three
faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
There are three
things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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.
There is no
kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently
fall than that of defrauding the government.
There never was
a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There was never
a good war, or a bad peace.
They that can
give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
They who would
give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or
security.
Those
disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in
their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which
would be of more use to them.
Those that can
give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
Those that
won't be counseled can't be helped.
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.
Those who would
give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
Three can keep
a secret if two are dead.
Three can keep
a secret, if two of them are dead.
Time is money.
To Follow by
faith alone is to follow blindly.
To lengthen thy
life, lessen thy meals.
To succeed,
jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Tomorrow every
fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
Tomorrow, every
Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Tricks and
treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Trouble springs
from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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 are more
thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than
perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his
circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for
acquiring information.
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.
Well done is
better than well said.
Whatever is
begun in anger ends in shame.
When
befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
When in doubt,
don't.
When men and
woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
When will
mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
When you're
finished changing, you're finished.
Where liberty
is, there is my country.
Where sense is
wanting, everything is wanting.
Where there's
marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Who had
deceived thee so often as thyself?
Who is rich? He
that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Who is rich? He
that rejoices in his portion.
Who is wise? He
that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is
rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Wine is
constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Wise men don't
need advice. Fools won't take it.
Without
continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and
success have no meaning.
Words may show
a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Work as if you
were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Write injuries
in dust, benefits in marble.
Write your
injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
You can bear
your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
You may delay,
but time will not.
Your net worth
to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are
subtracted from your good ones.