More from Benjamin Franklin
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Lost Time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on eat
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Tim FerrissTim Ferriss Every time I feel like I’m gaining a bit of weight, I’ll eat healthily for, like, 3 days. Then I’ll be like, ‘Oh, I look skinny again.’ Then I’ll go back to eating bad, but I tell myself it’s OK, I’m only 19, so I can do it while I can.
Madison BeerMadison Beer The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
Jack LondonJack London Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.
Judy GarlandJudy Garland Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe