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Day Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- What good shall I do this day?
- But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage…
- I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall…
- Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
- He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
- A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
- On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to…
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at…
- One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and…
- Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.
- Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
- An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
- He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
- He that rises late must trot all day.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at…
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
- We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness…
- With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock…
- For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong