« All Littles Quotes · Benjamin Franklin's Page
Littles Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
- Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
- A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to…
- The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a…
- Little boats should keep near shore
- Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with…
- I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the…
- Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
- Speak little, do much.
- 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping…
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much used in the…
- Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault…
- Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen,…
- The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our…
- There is no little enemy
- You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but…
- The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
- If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we…
- I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
- A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that…
- Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.
- I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether…
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the…
More Ways to Read Littles Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
More Littles Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson