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Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Wisdom
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin 
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
- Jewel
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
Crazy is walking down the street
with half a cantaloupe on your head,
muttering; "I'm a hamster, I'm a hamster."
- the movie Spy Hard (1996)
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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