Benjamin Quotes

Something will turn up.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

London is a roost for every bird.

We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.

Lost time is never found again.

You may delay but time will not.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

The proud hate pride - in others.