Benjamin Franklin kniha Poor Richard's Almanack
"July. VII Month.", Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), Philadelphia: B. Frankin and D. Hall
Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin: Citáty anglicky
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“If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.”
Benjamin Franklin kniha Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack (1736), http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/frapos/index.html November <br class="br">Poor Richard's Almanack
Letter to his father, 13 April 1738, printed in Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia, 1834), volume 1, p. 233. Also quoted in Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) by Walter Isaacson
Epistles
“Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France.”
Henri de Bornier, La Fille de Roland, act III, scene ii, p. 65 (1875): "Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France!" <br class="br">Also misattributed to Thomas Jefferson in 1880 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE2DB143FEE3ABC4151DFB166838B699FDE <br class="br">Misattributed
“A penny saved is a penny got.”
Benjamin Franklin kniha Poor Richard's Almanack
Preface, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)
Poor Richard's Almanack
Queries and Remarks Respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania reported in Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1907), vol. 10, pp. 57–58.
Decade unclear
Part III, p. 98.
The Autobiography (1818)
“In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.”
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (March 16th, 1775).
Epistles
Letter to Joseph Huey (6 June 1753); published in Albert Henry Smyth, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, volume 3, p. 144.
Epistles
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
Benjamin Franklin kniha Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack (1743)
Poor Richard's Almanack
“Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.”
Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
Part II, p. 64.
The Autobiography (1818)
“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Letter to William Strahan (1745); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 22.
Decade unclear
Varianta: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Part III, p. 89.
The Autobiography (1818)
Letter to Washington (5 March 1780); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles
“What is the good of a newborn baby?”
Widely attributed response to a questioner doubting the usefulness of hot air balloons. See Seymor L. Chapin, "A Legendary Bon Mot?: Franklin's 'What is the Good of a Newborn Baby?'", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 129:3 (September 1985), pp. 278–290. Chapin argues (pp. 286–287) that the "evidence overwhelmingly suggests that he said something rather different" and that the attributed quotation is "a probably much older adage".
Attributed
Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier, Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal (1784), as translated in "The Chain of Reason versus the Chain of Thumbs", Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) by Stephen Jay Gould,. p. 195.
Decade unclear
Petition from the Pennsylvania Society (1790)
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do.”
Attributed in various post-2000 works, but actually Dale Carnegie in How to Win Friends and Influence People p.14 http://books.google.com/books?id=yxfJDVXClucC&pg=PA14&dq=fool, published in 1936. (N.B. Carnegie is quoting Franklin immediately prior to writing this, so attribution could be due to a printing error in some edition). <br class="br">Misattributed