More Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1. A benevolent man should allow a few faults in hims ...
   
2. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish be ...
   
3. A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting ...
   
4. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ...
   
5. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two d ...
   
6. A long life may not be good enough, but a good lif ...
   
7. A penny saved is a penny earned. ...
   
8. A single man has not nearly the value he would hav ...
   
9. A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a sli ...
   
10. After three days men grow weary of a wench, a gues ...
    
11. All cats are gray in the dark. ...
    
12. All human situations have their inconveniences. We ...
    
13. All would live long, but none would be old. ...
    
14. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ...
    
15. Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good ...
    
16. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and ...
    
17. As we must account for every idle word, so must we ...
    
18. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; ...
    
19. Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few ...
    
20. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ...
    
21. Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a ...
    
22. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ...
    
23. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall ne ...
    
24. But in this world nothing can be said to be certai ...
    
25. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ...
    
26. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infin ...
    
27. Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but de ...
    
28. Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by G ...
    
29. Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes ...
    
30. Creditors have better memories than debtors. ...
    
31. Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. ...
    
32. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what ...
    
33. Diligence is the mother of good luck. ...
    
34. Distrust and caution are the parents of security. ...
    
35. Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to ...
    
36. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may ...
    
37. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; fo ...
    
38. Drive thy business or it will drive thee. ...
    
39. Early morning hath gold in its mouth. ...
    
40. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy ...
    
41. Educate your children to self-control, to the habi ...
    
42. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisu ...
    
43. Energy and persistence conquer all thing. ...
    
44. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ...
    
45. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will lea ...
    
46. Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. ...
    
47. Fish and visitors smell in three days. ...
    
48. Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men ...
    
49. For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the ...
    
50. Genius without education is like silver in the min ...
    
51. Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, an ...
    
52. God grant that not only the love of liberty but a ...
    
53. God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ...
    
54. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days ...
    
55. Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of ...
    
56. He does not possess wealth it possesses him. ...
    
57. He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. ...
    
58. He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. ...
    
59. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has no ...
    
60. He that can have patience can have what he will. ...
    
61. He that falls in love with himself will have no ri ...
    
62. He that has done you a kindness will be more ready ...
    
63. He that is good at making excuses is seldom good a ...
    
64. He that is of the opinion money will do everything ...
    
65. He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fl ...
    
66. He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ...
    
67. He that won't be counselled can't be helped. ...
    
68. He that would live in peace and at ease must not s ...
    
69. He was so learned that he could name a horse in ni ...
    
70. He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. ...
    
71. He who shall introduce into public affairs the pri ...
    
72. Here comes the orator with his flood of words and ...
    
73. Hide not your talents, they for use were made. Wha ...
    
74. How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his pr ...
    
75. I am a strong believer in luck and I find the hard ...
    
76. I am in the prime of senility. ...
    
77. I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always ex ...
    
78. I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infi ...
    
79. I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeyi ...
    
80. I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not eve ...
    
81. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man c ...
    
82. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. ...
    
83. If you know how to spend less than you get, you ha ...
    
84. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. ...
    
85. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well a ...
    
86. If you would know the value of money try to borrow ...
    
87. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are d ...
    
88. If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest ...
    
89. If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and ...
    
90. If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. ...
    
91. In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things ...
    
92. In this world nothing is certain but death and tax ...
    
93. It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break t ...
    
94. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is ...
    
95. It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you ...
    
96. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half ...
    
97. Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. ...
    
98. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, sel ...
    
99. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise ...
    
100. Lost time is never found again. ...
     
101. Many complain of their memory, few of their judgme ...
     
102. Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried unti ...
     
103. Marry your son when you will, but you daughter whe ...
     
104. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The ...
     
105. Necessity never made a good bargain. ...
     
106. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to ...
     
107. No nation was ever ruined by trade. ...
     
108. Our critics are our friends; they show us our faul ...
     
109. Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. (In ...
     
110. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, ...
     
111. Read much, but not many books. ...
     
112. Remember not only to say the right thing in the ri ...
     
113. Remember that time is money. ...
     
114. Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too ha ...
     
115. Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy v ...
     
116. Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it ...
     
117. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, al ...
     
118. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable cre ...
     
119. Tell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, ...
     
120. The absent are never without fault. Nor the presen ...
     
121. The Constitution only guarantees the American peop ...
     
122. The doors of wisdom are never shut. ...
     
123. The first mistake in public business is the going ...
     
124. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest i ...
     
125. The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reas ...
     
126. There are three great friends an old wife, an old ...
     
127. There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwis ...
     
128. There is no little enemy. ...
     
129. There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ...
     
130. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain ...
     
131. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. ...
     
132. Think of these things, whence you came, where you ...
     
133. Think what you do when you run into debt; you give ...
     
134. Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting peop ...
     
135. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ...
     
136. Time is money. ...
     
137. To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals court ...
     
138. To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with th ...
     
139. To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devi ...
     
140. To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. ...
     
141. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. ...
     
142. To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of ...
     
143. Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly ...
     
144. We must all hang together, or most assuredly we sh ...
     
145. Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys ...
     
146. Well done is better than well said. ...
     
147. Were it offered to my choice, I should have no obj ...
     
148. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ...
     
149. When the people find that they can vote themselves ...
     
150. Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting, ...
     
151. Where there's marriage without love, there will be ...
     
152. Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ...
     
153. Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody ...
     
154. Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is p ...
     
155. Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of ...
     
156. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation mu ...
     
157. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. ...
     
158. Wish not so much to live long as to live well. ...
     
159. Without justice courage is weak. ...
     
160. Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and n ...
     
161. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ...
     
162. You may delay, but time will not. ...