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Want Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
- If you want something done, ask a busy person.
- Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to…
- Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
- If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
- Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors…
- Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
- Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
- One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
- Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.
- If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
- 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…
- Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
- The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.
- Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
- Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the…
- It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
- There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is…
- In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
- Our necessities never equal our wants.
- There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.
- A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was…
- For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
- A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and…
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- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach