Benjamin Franklin House Quotations

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

There is much money given to be laught at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A's fine horse, and B's fine house

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

At the workman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter

Punch-coal, cut-candle, and set brand on end, is neither good house wife, nor good house-wife's friend.