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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Famous Benjamin Franklin Quotations
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printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
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- A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. Benjamin Franklin »
- After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. Benjamin Franklin »
- All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move. Benjamin Franklin »
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin »
- Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin »
- Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin »
- As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin »
- Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin »
- Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin »
- But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin »
- By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. Benjamin Franklin »
- Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin »
- Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin »
- Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. Benjamin Franklin »
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin »
- Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin »
- Drive thy business or it will drive thee. Benjamin Franklin »
- 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. Benjamin Franklin »
- Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. Benjamin Franklin »
- Energy and persistence conquer all thing. Benjamin Franklin »
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin »
- Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. Benjamin Franklin »
- Fish and visitors smell in three days. Benjamin Franklin »
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin »
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Benjamin Franklin »
- He does not possess wealth it possesses him. Benjamin Franklin »
- He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue. Benjamin Franklin »
- He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. 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 lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas. Benjamin Franklin »
- He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin »
- He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Benjamin Franklin »
- He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. Benjamin Franklin »
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade Benjamin Franklin »
- How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin »
- I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Benjamin Franklin »
- I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. Benjamin Franklin »
- 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. Benjamin Franklin »
- 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. Benjamin Franklin »
- If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. 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 lovable. Benjamin Franklin »
- If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. 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 »
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin »
- If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. Benjamin Franklin »
- If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. Benjamin Franklin »
- It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. Benjamin Franklin »
- Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin »
- Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. 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 complain of their memory, few of their judgment. Benjamin Franklin »
- Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. Benjamin Franklin »
- Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. Benjamin Franklin »
- Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin »
- No nation was ever ruined by trade. 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 »
- Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin »
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Benjamin Franklin »
- Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen. Benjamin Franklin »
- Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful. Benjamin Franklin »
- 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. Benjamin Franklin »
- The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin »
- There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. 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 »
- There is no little enemy. Benjamin Franklin »
- There never was a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin »
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin »
- Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. 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 »
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin »
- Time is money. Benjamin Franklin »
- To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. Benjamin Franklin »
- To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. Benjamin Franklin »
- To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. Benjamin Franklin »
- Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly. Benjamin Franklin »
- We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin »
- Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin »
- Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin »
- Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin »
- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin »
- Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody. Benjamin Franklin »
- 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. Benjamin Franklin »
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin »
- Wish not so much to live long as to live well. Benjamin Franklin »
- Without justice courage is weak. Benjamin Franklin »
- Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please. Benjamin Franklin »
- You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin »
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