I’ve posted some quotes from Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac before, but one post cannot contain his wealth of advice. 😉 So I thought today, on this chilly January morn when my thermometer has dipped into the negatives, I’d warm everyone up with some of Ben’s wisdom.
Buy what thou hast no need of; and e’er long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Don’t value a man for the quality he is of, but for the qualities he possesses.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Oh so often I complain of having no time to do what I need to do…but how often is that because I fail to prioritize my time wisely?
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
An old young man will be a young old man.
I love this one. =) My father-in-law said back when I was a teenager just dating my now-hubby that I was the oldest young person he ever met. I took it as a compliment. And I hope that the same something that made me weigh things carefully as a young person will make me appreciate and enjoy life all the more as I age.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
This is one I try to tell myself often. I’m an eternal optimist, but I have to be careful not to hope in what is not in the Lord’s plan for me. The trick, of course, is determining what that is.
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. 