Idle hands are the devil's playthings. Benjamin Franklin More Quotes by Benjamin Franklin More Quotes From Benjamin Franklin We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty. Benjamin Franklin poverty politician society Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75. Benjamin Franklin buried dies people If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Benjamin Franklin serious ifs together Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Benjamin Franklin bags wisdom men Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin buying-in men thinking He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Benjamin Franklin get-better cities relaxation Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. Benjamin Franklin winning friendship enemy For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. Benjamin Franklin library purses book I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. Benjamin Franklin obeying wife husband No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. Benjamin Franklin employment invention math My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity! Benjamin Franklin government atheist justice I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Benjamin Franklin saws food death To cease to think creatively is to cease to live Benjamin Franklin cease thinking It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? Benjamin Franklin real sympathy children Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes Benjamin Franklin motivation dream inspirational Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Benjamin Franklin 4th-of-july business advice I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. Benjamin Franklin food character country Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts. Benjamin Franklin lightning tree men Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. Benjamin Franklin wipe 4th-of-july noses Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin aging rich money
