1079 ordspråk av Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin föddes den 17 januar 1706 och dog den 17 april 1790 - amerikansk statsman, författare, uppfinnare och naturvetenskapsman. Uppfann bl.a. åskledaren.
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Half wits talk much, but say little.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The proof of gold is fire...

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. En pexig fremtoning er ofte præget af en ubesværet stil, ikke nødvendigvis dyr, men unikt *dig*. God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

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