"He that displays too often his wife and……" — Benjamin Franklin
"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed."
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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
— Bryan Adams
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
— Walter Benjamin
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
— Dale Carnegie
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
— Agatha Christie
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
— William J. Clinton
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
— George Steiner
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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