Our necessities never equal our wants

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Necessity Quotes

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more...

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more...

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an...

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an...

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good...

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good...

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will...

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will...

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Observe all men, thyself most.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.