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An old man in a house is a good sign.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Men, House
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Organization, House, Despair
Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Benjamin Franklin
House, Grace, Virtue
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.68, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

Benjamin Franklin
Food, Men, House
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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

Benjamin Franklin
House, Want, Furniture
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself”, p.227, S. Andrus

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

Benjamin Franklin
Wife, House, Littles
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Believe, Writing, House
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.514

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Coffee, House, Political
Benjamin Franklin (1950). “Letters to the Press, 1758-1775”

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Horse, Vanity, House

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

Benjamin Franklin
Fire, Wife, House
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Men, House

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