Benjamin Franklin Two Quotations

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

Democracy is like having two wolves and a lamb decide what is for dinner.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

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.