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Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- 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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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