Quote

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Looks
Pages
Every
Paper
Obituary
Name
Grab
Names
Thrive
Morning
Aging
Age
Page
Funny
Wake
Look
Nine

More quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Image
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
If you want something done, ask a busy person.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state more so than riches or arms.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
Benjamin Franklin