Benjamin Franklin

A country man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Benjamin Franklin

A full belly makes a dull brain: The muses starve in a cook’s shop.

Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

A greater quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter digestion than others.

Benjamin Franklin

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

A little religion, and a little honesty, goes a great way in courts.

Benjamin Franklin

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro’ fear of being thought to have but little.

Benjamin Franklin

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he be dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

Benjamin Franklin