Occupation: Founding Father Of The United States Birth: January 17, 1706 Death: April 17, 1790
Take time for all things..
Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves..
When you're finished changing, you're finished..
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify….
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance..
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts..
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . ..
He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot..
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others..
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly..
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts..
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven..
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong..
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth..
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglify….
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old..
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money..
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful..
What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Clim….
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful..