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Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
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
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]
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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
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- 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
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- 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
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- 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
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- 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
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- 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
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody
- John Churton Collins
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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