Quotes & Sayings About Love Benjamin Franklin

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it? — Benjamin Franklin

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge. — Benjamin Franklin

One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin

Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life! — Benjamin Franklin

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. — Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable. — Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion. — Benjamin Franklin

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country! — Benjamin Franklin

HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS AND VOLCANOES. — Phoebe Stone

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. — Benjamin Franklin

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others? — Benjamin Franklin

Love well, whip well. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm confidently of opinion that we are competent to transact the business which had been entrusted to our care; that we are equal' to every exigence which might occur; and therefore, I had not seen the necessity of foreign aid! [responding to Benjamin Franklin's suggestion to start each day of Congressional session with prayer "to the Creator of the universe, and the Governour of all nations, beseeching Him to preside in our council, enlighten our minds with a portion of heavenly wisdom, influence our hearts with a love of truth and justice, and crown our labours with-complete and abundant success"] — Alexander Hamilton

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. — Benjamin Franklin

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought. — Benjamin Franklin

He who is in love with himself has no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals — Benjamin Franklin

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" — Benjamin Franklin

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her. — Benjamin Franklin

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason. — Benjamin Franklin

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth. — Benjamin Franklin

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much. — Benjamin Franklin

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. — Benjamin Franklin

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. — Benjamin Franklin

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. — Benjamin Franklin

If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. — Benjamin Franklin

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. — Benjamin Franklin

Love you Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge. — Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped. — Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd. — Benjamin Franklin

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, — Benjamin Franklin

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded. — Benjamin Franklin

He that takes a wife, takes care — Benjamin Franklin

Imitate Jesus and Socrates — Benjamin Franklin

In eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you.
Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be lovable — Benjamin Franklin

Dear young people, choose God for your portion; love his truth, and be not ashamed of it; choose for your company such as serve him in uprightness; and shun as most dangerous the conversation of those whose lives are of an ill savor; for by frequenting such company some hopeful young people have come to great loss, and been drawn from less evils to greater, to their utter ruin. In the bloom of youth no ornament is so lovely as that of virtue, nor any enjoyments equal to those which we partake of in fully resigning ourselves to the Divine will. These enjoyments add sweetness to all other comforts, and give true satisfaction in company and conversation, where people are mutually acquainted with it; and as your minds are thus seasoned with the truth, you will find strength to abide steadfast to the testimony of it, and be prepared for services in the church. — Benjamin Franklin

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults. — Benjamin Franklin

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid. — Benjamin Franklin

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin