![]() Other famous Franklin quotes are well-documented. For example, one of the most-popular sayings attributed to Franklin is, “a penny saved is a penny earned.” This appears to be a combination of two Franklin proverbs. To this day, there are discussions about the origins of some of these quotes. In particular, Franklin wrote, or used other sources of content, for a 25-year period for his Almanack, as “Richard Saunders.” A publisher, entrepreneur, and diplomat, Franklin became known for sayings or “proverbs” that appeared in Poor Richard’s Almanack and his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. In his time, Franklin may have been the most-quoted public figure of his generation. “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.It was on this day in 1789 that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote what was probably his last great quote, a saying about the Constitution and life that became true about five months later. “Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”ģ5. “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”ģ4. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”ģ3. “Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”ģ2. “People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”ģ1. “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”ģ0. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”Ģ9. “A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. “Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”Ģ8. ![]()
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