Aphorims by Ben Franklin

I am challenging you to come up with your own One or two sentence liners using these as examples. Email them to dramaboy57@hotmail.com and I think I will post the best (in my opinion) the monday after Thanksgiving, original please, but if you find one that is good and is not yours then send it in with an author's name.


Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.

He that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.

'Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure, nothing more bondage than too much liberty.