Quotes

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
-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

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
-Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
-Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-Benjamin Franklin

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
-Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
-Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
-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

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
-Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
-Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
-Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-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

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
-Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
-Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.
-Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
-Benjamin Franklin

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
-Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
-Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
-Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
-Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
-Benjamin Franklin

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
-Benjamin Franklin

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
-Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
-Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
-Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
-Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
-Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
-Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
-Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
-Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-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

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
-Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
-Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
-Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
-Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
-Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
-Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
-Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
-Benjamin Franklin

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
-Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
-Benjamin Franklin

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
-Benjamin Franklin