There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
- Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
- Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- He that can have patience can have what he will.
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Best Quotes
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
- I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.
- No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
- I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
- I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.