Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
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
Idols
Arse
Greatest
Arses
Upon
Proudest
Monarch
Monarchs
Throne
Thrones
Obliged
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
Benjamin Franklin
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
Benjamin Franklin
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.
Benjamin Franklin
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
Benjamin Franklin
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
Benjamin Franklin
Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.
Benjamin Franklin
If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
Benjamin Franklin
Great hopes make everything great possible
Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
Do well by doing good.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Benjamin Franklin
