ЦИТАТЫ автора: Benjamin Franklin

“ Beauty and folly are old companions. ”

“ At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. ”

“ My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. ”

“ An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ”

“ I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. ”

“ Honesty is the best policy. ”

“ Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ”

“ Fatigue is the best pillow. ”

“ To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. ”

“ Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. ”

“ Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ”

“ The first mistake in public business is the going into it. ”

“ Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ”

“ In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ”

“ Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter. ”

“ Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ”

“ A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ”

“ In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. ”

“ It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. ”

“ Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ”