A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: benjamin-franklin
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Write to Please Yourself.
When You write to Please Others
You end up Pleasing No one.
Stichwörter: benjamin-franklin eternal-youth-empire
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: friendship benjamin-franklin
Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.
Stichwörter: inspirational wealth ethics business benjamin-franklin franklin ben-franklin
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Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.
Stichwörter: humor sarcasm benjamin-franklin cahill rare
Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!"
Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?"
"No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.
Stichwörter: benjamin-franklin amy-cahill jonah-wizard the39clues chamber-pots
Hang together, or hang separately. Benjamin Franklin is a genius.
Renay WilliamsStichwörter: humor inspirational benjamin-franklin hang
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: life chess benjamin-franklin
Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, "To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion." In another place this experienced observer has said, "There are times when I prefer it to sodomy." Robinson Crusoe says, "I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art." Queen Elizabeth said, "It is the bulwark of virginity." Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, "A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush." The immortal Franklin has said, "Masturbation is the best policy." Michelangelo and all of the other old masters--"old masters," I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction--have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, "Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse." Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time--"None knows it but to love it; none name it but to praise.
Mark TwainStichwörter: masturbation caesar homer benjamin-franklin the-iliad sodomy michelangelo queen-elizabeth robinson-crusoe iliad zulu onanism cetewayo
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Benjamin FranklinStichwörter: benjamin-franklin
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