Ben Franklin’s Aphorisms…When the time is appropriate, I will ask you for your choice of one to make a creative project out of…but only one per student! Per class!
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1. There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
2. To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
3. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
4. Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
5. He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
6. I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
7. 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.
8. Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
9. Look round the habitable world, how few know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
10. Little strokes fell great oaks.
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11. Great Talkers, little Doers.
12. He that riseth late must trot all day.
13. Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
14. But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! ((clothing for appearance))
15. He may well win the race that runs by himself.
16. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
17. If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
18. Drive thy business; let it not drive thee.
19. Beware of little expenses: A small leak will sink a ship.
20. Drive thy business; let not that drive thee.
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21. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
22. a Word to the Wise is enough, and many Words won't fill a Bushel,
23. Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
24. Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
25. A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
26. If thou injurest Conscience, it will have its Revenge on thee.
27. 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 a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, ...
28. There is no little enemy.
29. Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
30. A dying man can do nothing easy.
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31. Death takes no bribes.
32. 'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
33. Rather go to bed supper less than rise in debt.
34. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune: for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
35. Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
36. Diligence is the mother of good luck
37. God gives all things to industry
38. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow
39. One today is worth two tomorrows; ...
40. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
41. By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
42. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
43. God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
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41. The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.
42. Industry pays debts, despair increases them.
43. The cat in gloves catches no mice.
44. Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families.
45. A fat kitchen, a lean will.
46. Eat to live, and not live to eat.
47. To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.
48. If thou art dull and heavy after Meat, it's a sign thou hast exceeded the due Measure; for Meat and Drink ought to refresh the Body, and make it cheerful, and not to dull and oppress it.
49. Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
50. A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.
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51. Some men grow mad by studying much to know, but who grows mad by studying good to grow.
52. Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous.
53. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him
54. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
55. Energy and persistence conquer all things.
56. If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.
57. Each year, one vicious habit rooted in time ought to make the worst man good.
58. He that sows thorns should not go barefoot.
59. If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
60. The rotten apple spoils his companion.
61. Setting too good an Example is a Kind of Slander seldom forgiven;
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61. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
62. A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
63. He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.
64. Folly is wisdom spun too fine.
65. The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.
66. Most fools think they are only ignorant.
67. He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.
68. Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten,
69. Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.
70. Ever since Follies have pleased, Fools have been able to divert.
71. Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
72. I have generally found that a man who is good at manufacturing excuses is good at nothing else.
73. 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
74. Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
75. Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
76. He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
77. Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
78. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
79. There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
80. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
81. Beware of the young Doctor and the old Barber.
82. Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.
83. An old young man, will be a young old man.
84. A fine genius in his own country, is like gold in the mine.
85. One should eat to live, not live to eat.
86. He that lives on hopes will die fasting.
87. In the Affairs of the World Men are saved, not by Faith but by the Want of it.
88. As to Jesus of Nazareth, , I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see
89. That God governs in the Affairs of Men.
90. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
91. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
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91. He that lives on hope will die fasting.
92. Humility makes great men twice honorable.
93. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
94. To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness.
95. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright.
96. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
97. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
98. As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.
99. It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service. But Idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon all that is spent ...
100. There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
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111. He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
112. Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
113. Laws gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed.
114. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
115. No qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.
116. Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
117. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
118. Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
119. Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has death.
121. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
122. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
123. If thou wouldst live long, live well; for Folly and Wickedness shorten Life.
124. Great Modesty often hides great Merit.
125. Necessity knows no law.
126. Necessity has no law.
127. Necessity has no Law; I know some Attorneys of the name.
128. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
129. A little neglect may breed great mischief.
130. Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be that thou wilt.
131. A place for everything and everything in its place.
132. For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
133. Pain wastes the body, pleasures the understanding.
134. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
135. Would you live with ease? Do what you ought, not what you please.
136. He that would live in peace & at ease must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
137. There are no ugly Loves, nor handsome Prisons.
138. Love, and be loved.
141. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.
142. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
143. None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
144. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
145. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
146. Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with infamy.
147. The eye of the master will do more work than both of his hands.
148. It is easy to see, hard to foresee.
149. The best is the cheapest.
150. We think we are on the right road to improvement because we are making experiments.