All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. All
- Time is the stuff life is made of. Favourite
- Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. Both
- Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat. Cheese
- Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. All
- Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures. Cures
- Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with… Arms
- Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. Cures
- Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies. Broken Promises
- Moderation in all things - including moderation. All
- A dying man can do nothing easy. Dying
- I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,… Candle
- If you want to be loved, love and be loveable. Inspirational
- Beer is proof that God loves us. Beer
- Reckless youth makes rueful age. Age
- You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. Delay
- Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. Chess
- Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played… Chess
- The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,… Acquired
- By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged… Affair
- Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding Bakers
- When Wine enters, out goes the Truth. Enters
- Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature. Anger
- The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any… Advised
- Nothing preaches better than the act. Act