Franklin
Cited as Franklin. — 27 quotations
Advice
We may give advice, but we can not give conduct.
Alone
The citizens alone should be at the expense.
Blister
My hands were blistered.
Brute
An ill-natured brute of a husband.
Copper
My friends filled my pockets with coppers.
Creditor
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Debt
When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty.
Fool
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Humanize
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.
Kitchen
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
Laziness
Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.
Mad
Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.
Maintain
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Of
It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
Outlaugh
His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
Pinch
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.
Pride
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Purchase
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.
Ruin
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.
Sloth
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
Tax
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.
Temperate
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
Tomorrow
One today is worth two to-morrows.
Trot
He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night.
Volume
An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set.
Want
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy.