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Taltarzac725 01-17-2025 07:36 AM

Favorite Benjamin Franklin quote?
 
He said a lot of worthwhile things. Happy Birthday to Benjamin Franklin.


"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

bshuler 01-17-2025 07:55 AM

Seems timely?..

“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
- Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748

tophcfa 01-17-2025 09:33 AM

Although it’s disputed, some claim he said “beer is proof god loves us and wants us to be happy”.

manaboutown 01-17-2025 09:58 AM

There are so many from which to chose. For several reasons Ben is my favorite of all the Founding Fathers.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Stu from NYC 01-17-2025 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 2402228)
There are so many from which to chose. For several reasons Ben is my favorite of all the Founding Fathers.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Similar to my favorite quote, fail to plan you plan to fail

fdpaq0580 01-17-2025 05:27 PM

Isn't he the one that said "trust me, honey. I have no idea how the maid's underwear ended up under my pillow."

🤔

dewilson58 01-17-2025 06:57 PM

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Topspinmo 01-17-2025 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2402193)
He said a lot of worthwhile things. Happy Birthday to Benjamin Franklin.


"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."


According OBB you need to reference that quote. :1rotfl::1rotfl:

defrey12 01-18-2025 07:35 AM

There are two that spring to mind; “Don’t ask how sausage or laws are made’ and “If you always tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.”

opinionist 01-18-2025 07:45 AM

Eat to live and not live to eat.

ThirdOfFive 01-18-2025 08:36 AM

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." (Said at about the time of the Declaration of Independence)

Justputt 01-18-2025 08:55 AM

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

richdell 01-18-2025 11:26 AM

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Regorp 01-18-2025 12:12 PM

Ben Franklin
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2402193)
He said a lot of worthwhile things. Happy Birthday to Benjamin Franklin.


"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

. Flying my kite is most electrifying!

bmcgowan13 01-18-2025 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2402193)
He said a lot of worthwhile things. "

"Somebody hand me that pen." ...Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA July 4, 1776


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