Benjamin Franklin House Quotations

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house

At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter

Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.