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Years Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in…
- A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
- Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
- A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
- We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
- Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...
- In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for…
- Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
- Let each new year find you a better person.
- 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…
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
- Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
- He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.
- Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
- At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- 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…
- Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -The 5000 Year Leap
- there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it
- Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
- At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- 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
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz