A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
- It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
- The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
- When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
- Time is money.
- Fatigue is the best pillow.
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Scalded cats fear even cold water.
- I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.