Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
Benjamin Franklin
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin
"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."
Benjamin Franklin
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
Benjamin Franklin
"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
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
Benjamin Franklin
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
Benjamin Franklin
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
Benjamin Franklin
"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."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
Benjamin Franklin
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
Benjamin Franklin
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
Benjamin Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin
"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
Benjamin Franklin
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
Benjamin Franklin
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