A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin FranklinThe person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: words reading books literature illiteracy pity
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
Stichwörter: wisdom talent work
It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
Stichwörter: poetry blackbeard hanging pirates
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin FranklinBeer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]
Stichwörter: misquote drinking beer
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: willful-ignorance
Women are books, and men the readers be...
Benjamin FranklinAll the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
Benjamin Franklin...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: certainty taxes 1789
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