It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Necessity never made a good bargain.
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well […]
Atheism is unknown there; infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country, without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. (1782 pamphlet “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America.”)
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory – sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.
Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
