Showing posts with label benjamin franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benjamin franklin. Show all posts

2014/10/03

Educate Your Children to Self-Control

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/10/02

Early to Bed

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/10/01

Keep in The Sunlight

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/30

Content Makes Poor Men Rich

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/29

By My Rambling Digressions

"By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/28

Beware

"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/27

Slower in Changing

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/26

Be Civil to All

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/25

At 40 The Judgment

"At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/24

Anger is Never Without Reason

"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/23

Best Interest

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/22

None Would be Old

"All would live long, but none would be old" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/21

All Human Situations Have Their Inconveniences

"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/20

Never Get Over

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/19

Good Conscience

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas" [Benjamin Franklin]

2014/09/18

A Fish Between Two Cats

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats" [Benjamin Franklin]