Our necessities never equal our wants

Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Necessity Quotes

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

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.

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of...

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of...

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently...

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently...

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither...

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information...

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.