"That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can……" — Benjamin Franklin

"That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body."

— Benjamin Franklin

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1,166 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin has 1,166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we…
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of…
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution…
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for…
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is…
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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