Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
