Benjamin Franklin Lt Quotations

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereafter.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries

If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

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 a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Rules of Health and long Life, and to preserve from Malignant Fevers, and Sickness in general.

Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.

What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite

All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Dewey felt that since ideals are not perfectly attainable, they may demoralize students who try to measure up to them. The general tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public spirit, fortitude, etc.

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.