If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- You may delay, but time will not.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
- I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
- The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- He that can have patience can have what he will.
Best Quotes
- It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
- I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
- My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
- When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
- War is like love it always finds a way.
- As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
- The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.