Ben Franklin...Poor Richard's Almanac...1732-1758***
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.***
Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to
sell and to keep.***
Work while it is called for today, for you know not how much you may
be hindered tomorrow.***
One today is worth two tomorrows.***
A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can
never be spent.***
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.***
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no
other, and scarce in that.***
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go
on.***
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.***
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure;
nothing more bondage than too much liberty.***
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.***
Having been poor is no shame;
but being ashamed of it is.***
He that does what he should not
shall feel what he would not.**
Necessity never made a good bargain.***
He that speaks much is much mistaken.***
Proclaim not all thou knoweth, all thou owest, all thou hast,
nor all thou canst.***
Marry above thy match and you will get a master. ***
You can bear your own faults
and why not a fault in your wife?***
He that best understands the world,
least likes it.***
Blessed is he who expects nothing
for he shall never be disappointed.***
Content makes poor men rich;
discontent makes rich men poor.***
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;
and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.***
Many would live by their wits,
but break for want of stock.***
Tim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine
languages. So ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.***
The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.***
Pay what you owe and you will know what is your own.***
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.***
A slip of the foot you may soon recover,
but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.***
Would you live with ease,
do what you ought,
not what you please.***
The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.***
It's easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.***
To whom thy secret thou dost tell,
to him thy freedom thou dost sell.***
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets
the other go.***
It's great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults,
greater to tell him his.***
It's common for men to give 6 pretended reasons instead of one
real one.***
Beauty & folly are old companions.***
Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.***
Full of courtesy, full of craft.***
A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his
own as by those that he affects to have.***
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the
Philosophers-Stone.***
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.***
Make haste slowly.***
He who buys had need have 100 Eyes, but one's enough for him
that sells the Stuff.***
He that's secure is not safe.***
Many pitch on no course of life at
all, nor form any scheme of living, by which to attain any
valuable end; but wander perpetually from one thing to another.***
If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some.***
Men take more pains to mask than mend.***
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Coincidences.....
A poor scottish farmer, named Fleming, was working in the field one day and heard the terrified screams, of a young boy, coming from a nearby bog........he ran to help and discovered the boy, sinking in the black muck.....he saved the boys life. The next day a carriage pulled up, to the home of the farmer and a nobleman introduced himself as the father of the boy Fleming had saved.
He told Fleming that he wanted to repay him and Fleming refused , saying he could not accept payment , for what he did.
The nobleman saw the farmer's young son...and said "Let me make you an offer, I'll pay for your son to receive a fine education and if he is anything like you , you will be proud of him". The farmer accepted, this offer.
Fleming's son went on to graduate from medical school in London and was knighted Sir Alexander Fleming for his discovery of Penicillin, he was famous world-wide.
Years later the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia....What saved him??? Penicillin....the nobleman's name???....Randolph Churchill....his son's name???....Sir Winston Churchill....
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Mark Twain was born in 1835 on the day Halley's Comet made it's once every 75 year appearance.....he died in 1910 on the day the comet reappeared.
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In 1883, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book , The Arthur Gordon Pym of Naugatuck.....in the book, four men adrift in a boat, kill and eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker.......40 years later, four men adrift in a boat kill and eat the cabin boy, named Richard Parker, to survive...
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20 Year Intervals of Presidential Deaths
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1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (dies in office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt)
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--The sun is precisely 395 times larger than the moon, and is precisely 395 times farther away from the earth than the moon.
The two appear Precisely the same size when seen from earth because of the precise ratio of the distances
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Physical coincidence: If the density of the universe one second after the Big Bang had been greater by one part in a thousand billion, the universe would have recollapsed after ten years. On the other hand, if the density of the universe at that time had been less by the same amount, the universe would have been essentially empty when it was about ten years old.
Source: Stephen Hawking, Physicist
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here is a link to...Phrase Origins
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