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| A full belly makes a dull brain. -- Ben Franklin [and the local candy machine man. Ed] | |
| In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity. - Benjamin Franklin | |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | |
| I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", etc. I adopted instead of them "I conceive", "I apprehend", or "I imagine" a thing to be so or so; or "so it appears to me at present". When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
| A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- B. Franklin | |
| It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. -- Franklin Adams | |
| There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- B. Franklin | |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | |
| An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow. -- Franklin K. Dane | |
| Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lighting storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lighting was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as "A penny saved is a penny earned." Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office. -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?" | |
| Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans. Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns. -- Franklin Pierce Adams | |
| Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. -- Dave Barry, "Why Humor is Funny" | |
| The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. -- Benjamin Franklin. | |
| A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor. -- B. Franklin | |
| Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", etc. I adopted instead of them "I conceive", "I apprehend", or "I imagine" a thing to be so or so; or "so it appears to me at present". When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | |
| Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin | |
| One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. | |
| Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin | |
| When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or four years ago, he is a broad-minded man who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. -- Franklin Adams | |
| Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Ben Franklin | |
| He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin | |
| The best you get is an even break. -- Franklin Adams | |
| God helps them that help themselves. -- Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac" | |
| If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some. -- Ben Franklin | |
| The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- Franklin P. Jones | |
| The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Franklin | |
