Benjamin FranklinAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. Benjamin Franklin As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. Benjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Benjamin Franklin Do good to your friends to keep them, do good to your enemies to win them. Benjamin Franklin Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Employ your time well, if you mean to gain leisure. Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. Benjamin Franklin Games lubricate the body and the mind. Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin God helps those who help themselves. Benjamin Franklin God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Benjamin Franklin Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. Benjamin Franklin He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. Benjamin Franklin He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. Benjamin Franklin He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Benjamin Franklin He that rises late must trot all day. Benjamin Franklin He that speaks much, is much mistaken. Benjamin Franklin He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. Benjamin Franklin He that won't be counseled can't be helped. Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin He that's secure is not safe. Benjamin Franklin Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. Benjamin Franklin Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. Benjamin Franklin I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Benjamin Franklin If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Benjamin Franklin If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. Benjamin Franklin If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. Benjamin Franklin If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Industry need not wish. Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Benjamin Franklin It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Benjamin Franklin It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. Benjamin Franklin Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. Benjamin Franklin Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. Benjamin Franklin Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. Benjamin Franklin Observe all men, thyself most. Benjamin Franklin One today is worth two tomorrows. Benjamin Franklin Our necessities never equal our wants. Benjamin Franklin Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. Benjamin Franklin Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Benjamin Franklin Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair. Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Benjamin Franklin The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. Benjamin Franklin The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Benjamin Franklin The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Benjamin Franklin The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. Benjamin Franklin There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. Benjamin Franklin There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. Benjamin Franklin There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Benjamin Franklin Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. Benjamin Franklin To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Benjamin Franklin Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. Benjamin Franklin Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. Benjamin Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. Benjamin Franklin When in doubt, don't. Benjamin Franklin When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Benjamin Franklin When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Benjamin Franklin When you're finished changing, you're finished. Benjamin Franklin Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Benjamin Franklin Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Benjamin Franklin Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. Benjamin Franklin |