Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Life
Troubles
Double
Wishes
Trouble
Half
Wish
Would
Men
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
Benjamin Franklin
Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
Benjamin Franklin
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
Benjamin Franklin
The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.
Benjamin Franklin
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Benjamin Franklin
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
Benjamin Franklin
When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
Benjamin Franklin
Great talkers are little doers.
Benjamin Franklin
In success be moderate.
Benjamin Franklin
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries policy, to let them pass by us.
Benjamin Franklin
The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
Benjamin Franklin
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin Franklin
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
Benjamin Franklin
Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.
Benjamin Franklin
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Benjamin Franklin
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
Benjamin Franklin
