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A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin
Humorous, Flattery, Absurd
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Benjamin Franklin
Hope, Cutting, Wings
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Benjamin Franklin
Humility, Looks, Sin
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

Benjamin Franklin
Math, Employment, Invention

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

Benjamin Franklin
Religious, People, Religion
Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.438

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

Benjamin Franklin
Girl, Food, Wine
Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

Benjamin Franklin
Church, Lighthouse

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

Benjamin Franklin
Reason, Force
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Barnes & Noble Publishing

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin
War, Good War, Total War
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.228

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Benjamin Franklin
Idols, Arses, Thrones
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Men, Noses
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.239

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Benjamin Franklin
Fire, Gambling, Youth
"Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Benjamin Franklin
Sympathy, Children, Real
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Heaven, Degrees

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Aging, Rich
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.246, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Benjamin Franklin
Two, Criticism, Flattery
Poor Richard's Almanack, Feb. 1734

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Benjamin Franklin
Practice, Religion
James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

Success has ruined many a man.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Men, Ruined
Benjamin Franklin (1976). “Poor Richard: An Almanack”, David McKay Company

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Benjamin Franklin
Kings, Use, Bees
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.92, Courier Corporation

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

Benjamin Franklin
Punctuality, Virtue, Strict

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt.

Benjamin Franklin
Honor, Debt, Benefits
Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.468

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Loss, Men, House

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity
Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, States, Needed

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

Benjamin Franklin
May, Sometimes
Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.77, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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