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Old Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
- The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies…
- There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
- Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince…
- Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
- 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…
- Those who laugh often never grow old.
- An old man in a house is a good sign.
- When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either…
- A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make…
- Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
- Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
- Beauty and folly are old companions.
- All would live long, but none would be old.
- Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long…
- An old young man, will be a young old man.
- Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other.
- There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
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- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
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- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
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