{"id":28,"date":"2006-11-18T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=28"},"modified":"2006-11-18T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T18:46:00","slug":"lots-of-good-advice-from-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/lots-of-good-advice-from-benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Good Advice from Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love quotes because they can be like good jokes &#8211; they can make you look at things from a different perspective and maybe even laugh.<\/p>\n<p>The following quotes from Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US statesman, diplomat, inventor, and printer make me want to read a good biography on his life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>He that lives upon hope will die fasting. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you would be loved, love and be lovable <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A man is not completely born until he is dead. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A penny saved is a penny earned <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Joy is not in things! It is in us! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.  <em>(Sounds like the first Covey principle)<\/em> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What&#8217;s a sundial in the shade? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Remember that time is money. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/puppy\" rel=\"tag\">puppy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love quotes because they can be like good jokes &#8211; they can make you look at things from a different perspective and maybe even laugh. The following quotes from Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US statesman, diplomat, inventor, and printer make me want to read a good biography on his life. 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