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If a man empties his purse into his head,
by Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom Lesson Education
Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Man Quotes and Sayings
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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