Benjamin Franklin Hal Quotations

He who shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world

If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Ay, we must all hang together, else we shall all hang separately

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

We must hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately

What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite

Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk

If man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles