Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice: Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year

by Old Farmer's Almanac

Book Overview

A compendium of humor and advice from America's master of the aphorism mixes anecdotes with illustrations in a day-by-day almanac format that includes folk wisdom covering a wide variety of topics. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899093892
• ISBN13: 9780899093895
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Yankee Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Ben Franklins Almanac- used

I recieved the book I ordered in a short time and it was in excellent condition. A great buy at $1.00 plus shipping!! I highly recommend shopping the used section!

Start your new day with Ben

The almanac is exactly what the title indicates: wit, wisdom, practical advice, useful tips and fascinating facts. It is a pleasant and interesting way to start each new day with a cup of tea.

Great book to read every day

This Book is great to read for anyone with an inspired mind, I love the fact that you can read one page, full of facts each day of the year. Highly recomended.

Every day in every way we are getting a little bit better

Ben Franklin exemplifies one kind of American spirit. The historian Daniel Boorstin said that the greatness of America was in the small improvements it continually provided to everyday life, the spirit of invention. Ben Franklin built a lot of different kinds of better mousetraps, including bifocals, the postal service, and a whole way of thinking about improving the self day - by- day. This Almanac is compiled in his spirit and contains many examples of his wisdom. It also is chocked full with practical advice for homemakers,and home- improvers. Old Ben also had a sense of humor on occasion with his wisdom. "Fish and visitors smell after three days he told us" And when were in trouble we can always think of Ben's advice "Any port in a storm" Some of the stuff here may seem corny , trite , boring . But different strokes for different folks as they say , and there is enough here for 'everyman' to get a little advice and a little enjoyment of. Happy Sunday, Monday ,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday , Saturday. And Gut Shabbos.

Informative, useful, and fun

I'm surprised that no one has reviewed this book, since it's very useful and entertaining, easy to read, and inexpensive. There's one page for each day of the year. On one side of each page are facts about that day (famous birthdays, events). At the top of the page is a quote from Benjamin Franklin on some principle (saving money, etc.) with some illustrative biographical information from Franklin's or somebody else's life. At the bottom is practical advice for the home and garden, from cooling the house to storing cheese (wrap in wax paper, not celophane, because the live cultures need to breath). It usually takes only a couple of minutes to read a page. I've had the book on my kitchen table or in other place that you regularly visit for a few minutes every day. It's a well-edited and well-designed book and reasonably priced. I'm planning on giving copies as gifts because it's cheap and I can't imagine anybody not enjoying some aspect of it, either from the household hints, the principles, or the daily facts.