Benjamin Franklin

Quote link. Other quotes about: day men rain grow: "After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason never good: "Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one."
Quote link.: "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
Quote link.: "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence: "As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man: "Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old young: "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death world nothing: "But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness understand heaven: "By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."
Quote link.: "Creditors have better memories than debtors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck mother good: "Diligence is the mother of good luck."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend good: "Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never sun: "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life love: "Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
Quote link.: "Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason evil children future society child: "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."
Quote link.: "Energy and persistence conquer all thing."
Quote link.: "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god fear: "Fear God, and your enemies will fear you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "Fish and visitors smell in three days."
Quote link. Other quotes about: education: "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
Quote link.: "God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
Quote link.: "He does not possess wealth it possesses him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: clothed: "He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope die live: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Quote link.: "He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ world change: "He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun: "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade"
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ man: "How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck find work believe hard: "I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: beauty love: "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
Quote link.: "If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun walk: "If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something dead: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Quote link.: "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life: "If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live husband: "I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth man good: "I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think time: "It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time."
Quote link.: "Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."
Quote link.: "Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old wise: "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time never: "Lost time is never found again."
Quote link.: "Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die men: "Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five."
Quote link.: "Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today: "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Quote link.: "No nation was ever ruined by trade."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money time: "Remember that time is money."
Quote link.: "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
Quote link.: "Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find reason sin mind: "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never wisdom: "The doors of wisdom are never shut."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money old friend friends wife: "There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people government good: "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "There is no little enemy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad never good peace war: "There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Quote link.: "Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never people good: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dead: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "Time is money."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty: "To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human devil: "To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
Quote link. Other quotes about: innocent think: "Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly."
Quote link.: "Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it."
Quote link.: "Well done is better than well said."
Quote link.: "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Quote link. Other quotes about: anger: "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech: "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rich: "Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power wise rich: "Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
Quote link. Other quotes about: courage: "Without justice courage is weak."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "You may delay, but time will not."

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