"Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in……" — Benjamin Franklin
"Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body."
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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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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable…
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.…
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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil…
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They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions…
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[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet…
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant…
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When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs…
— J P Donleavy
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting…
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Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad
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