Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
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
Men
Infidelity
Cheated
Cheating
Likely
Horse
Wife
Three
Things
Wigs
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Benjamin Franklin
He that takes a wife, takes care
Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin
When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
Benjamin Franklin
You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion
Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
Benjamin Franklin
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.
Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
In success be moderate.
Benjamin Franklin
