Benjamin Quotes

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

The things which hurt, instruct.

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

Let thy vices die before thee.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

When you are finished changing, you are finished.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.