Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
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
Water
Drinks
Fear
Drank
Night
Beer
Remember
Drink
Men
Rest
Morning
Lasts
Drinkers
Last
Remembers
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Benjamin Franklin
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
Benjamin Franklin
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
Benjamin Franklin
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Benjamin Franklin
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.
Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin
No gains without pains.
Benjamin Franklin
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.
Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
