1740s · Skopia

Showing 58 quotes from the 1740s

Remember that Time is Money.

Benjamin Franklin

The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion · 1748

★ 8.5

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other.

Benjamin Franklin

1743

★ 5.5

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.

Benjamin Franklin

1746

★ 5.5

Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a Gallon of Vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 5.5

Essay · Satire

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting · 1745

★ 5.5

Sermon · Religious literature

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God · 1741

★ 5.3

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Night Thoughts · 1745

★ 5.3

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield

1746

★ 5.3

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

1746

★ 5.2

Any port in a storm.

1748

★ 4.5

In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.

Essays, Moral and Political · 1741

★ 4.4

Novel · Coming of age story · Picaresque

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Tom Jones · 1749

★ 4.3

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty.

1741

★ 3.9

The heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions.

1741

★ 3.9

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

What you would seem to be, be really.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

If you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him money.

Benjamin Franklin

1744

★ 3.9

Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

1745

★ 3.9

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

1746

★ 3.9

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