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Lasts Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
- What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
- So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry…
- 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…
- Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has…
- Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to…
- In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows…
- Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
- Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...
- When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
- Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
More Lasts Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager