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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. ― Benjamin Franklin
- Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ― Benjamin Franklin
- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ― Benjamin Franklin
- Well done is better than well said. ― Benjamin Franklin
- Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. ― Benjamin Franklin
- Be not sick too late, nor well too soon. ― Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ― Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ― Benjamin Franklin
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance. ― Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ― Benjamin Franklin
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. ― Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. ― Benjamin Franklin
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. ― Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ― Benjamin Franklin
The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again. ― Benjamin Franklin
He that can have patience can have what he will. ― Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five. ― Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ― Benjamin Franklin
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. ― Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned. ― Benjamin Franklin
If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. ― Benjamin Franklin
Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else. ― Benjamin Franklin
We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing! ― Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. ― Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not. ― Benjamin Franklin
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. ― Benjamin Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed! ― Benjamin Franklin
It is a common error in friends, when they would extol their friends, to make comparisons, and to depreciate the merits of others. ― Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. ― Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. ― Benjamin Franklin
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. ― Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. ― Benjamin Franklin
A new truth is a truth; an old error is an error. ― Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ― 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
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
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. ― Benjamin Franklin
The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent. ― Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. ― Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things. ― Benjamin Franklin
A fat kitchen makes a lean will. ― Benjamin Franklin
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. ― 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
Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. ― Benjamin Franklin
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. ― Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ― Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ― Benjamin Franklin
The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit. ― Benjamin Franklin
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ― Benjamin Franklin
A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him. ― Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. ― Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. ― Benjamin Franklin
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off. ― Benjamin Franklin
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! ― Benjamin Franklin
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. ― Benjamin Franklin
When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!’ ― Benjamin Franklin
He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines ― Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. ― Benjamin Franklin
Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer. ― Benjamin Franklin
Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please. ― Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what’s a sundial in the shade? ― Benjamin Franklin
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet. ― Benjamin Franklin
Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity. ― Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning. ― Benjamin Franklin
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees. ― Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. ― Benjamin Franklin
He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare. ― Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ― Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again. ― Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ― Benjamin Franklin
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ― Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ― Benjamin Franklin
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. ― Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie. ― 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
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. ― Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ― Benjamin Franklin
I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. ― Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ― 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
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. ― Benjamin Franklin
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ― Benjamin Franklin
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. ― Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. ― Benjamin Franklin
To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing. ― Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ― Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse Motion with Action. ― 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
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ― Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ― Benjamin Franklin
There was never a bad peace or a good war. ― Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ― Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ― Benjamin Franklin
When you are finished changing, you’re finished. ― Benjamin Franklin
When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet. ― Benjamin Franklin
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends. ― Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ― Benjamin Franklin
Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous. ― Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ― Benjamin Franklin
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. ― Benjamin Franklin
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. ― Benjamin Franklin
…but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ― Benjamin Franklin
Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ― Benjamin Franklin
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! ― Benjamin Franklin
If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty. ― Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. ― Benjamin Franklin
In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by faith, but by the Lack of it. ― Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ― Benjamin Franklin
If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practiced it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England. ― Benjamin Franklin
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. ― 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
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. ― Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. ― Benjamin Franklin
Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. ― Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. ― Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. ― Benjamin Franklin
I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. ― Benjamin Franklin
Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. ― Benjamin Franklin
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. ― Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow. ― Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ― Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. ― Benjamin Franklin
Security without liberty is called prison. ― Benjamin Franklin
Contentment makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor. ― Benjamin Franklin
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ― Benjamin Franklin
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. ― Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ― Benjamin Franklin
Those things that hurt, instruct. ― Benjamin Franklin
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. ― Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, don’t live to eat. ― Benjamin Franklin
Fish and visitors smell in three days. ― Benjamin Franklin
