Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin FranklinA good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin FranklinA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin FranklinA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin FranklinA life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin FranklinA man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin FranklinA penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin FranklinA place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin FranklinA small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin FranklinAbsence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin FranklinAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinAll mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin FranklinAll wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin FranklinAll 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 FranklinAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinAnd whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin FranklinAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin FranklinAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin FranklinAnyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin FranklinApplause waits on success.
Benjamin FranklinAs we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin FranklinAt twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin FranklinBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinBeauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin FranklinBeer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin FranklinBeing ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinBeware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin FranklinBeware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin FranklinBuy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin FranklinBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin FranklinCertainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinCreditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin FranklinDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinDistrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin FranklinDo good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin FranklinDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin FranklinDo not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinEat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin FranklinEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinEmploy thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin FranklinEnergy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin FranklinEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinExperience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin FranklinExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinFatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin FranklinFor 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 FranklinGain 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 FranklinGames lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin FranklinGenius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin FranklinGod helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin FranklinGod works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin FranklinGuests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin FranklinHalf a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin FranklinHaving been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin FranklinHe does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin FranklinHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinHe that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin FranklinHe that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin FranklinHe that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin FranklinHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin FranklinHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinHe that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin FranklinHe 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 FranklinHe that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin FranklinHe that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin FranklinHe that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin FranklinHe that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinHe that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin FranklinHe that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin FranklinHe who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin FranklinHear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinHide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin FranklinHonesty is the best policy.
Benjamin FranklinHow few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin FranklinHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinHunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin FranklinI conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin FranklinI didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin FranklinI guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin FranklinI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinI saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin FranklinI should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 FranklinIf a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin FranklinIf a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Benjamin FranklinIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinIf passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin FranklinIf time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin FranklinIf you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin FranklinIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinIn the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinIndustry need not wish.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinIt is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin FranklinIt is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin FranklinIt is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinIt takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinLaws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin FranklinLeisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin FranklinLife's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinLost time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinMany a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin FranklinMany foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin FranklinMany people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin FranklinMarriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin FranklinMine is better than ours.
Benjamin FranklinMoney has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinMost people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
Benjamin FranklinNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinNever confuse motion with action.
Benjamin FranklinNever leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin FranklinNever take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin FranklinNine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin FranklinNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin FranklinObserve all men, thyself most.
Benjamin FranklinOne today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinOur necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin FranklinRather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin FranklinRebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin FranklinRemember 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 FranklinRemember that credit is money.
Benjamin FranklinSavages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin FranklinShe laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin FranklinSince thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin FranklinSome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinSpeak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin FranklinTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin FranklinThe art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin FranklinThe Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin FranklinThe discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin FranklinThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinThe eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin FranklinThe first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin FranklinThe man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Benjamin FranklinThe strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin FranklinThe U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin FranklinThe use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin FranklinThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinThe worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin FranklinThere are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinThere are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin FranklinThere are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin FranklinThere is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin FranklinThere never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinThere was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinThey who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin FranklinThose 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 FranklinThose that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinThose that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinThree can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin FranklinTime is money.
Benjamin FranklinTo Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin FranklinTo succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin FranklinTomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinTricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin FranklinTrouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin FranklinWars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin FranklinWe are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin FranklinWe are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin FranklinWe must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinWealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.
Benjamin FranklinWhatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin FranklinWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinWhen in doubt, don't.
Benjamin FranklinWhen men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin FranklinWhen will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin FranklinWhen you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin FranklinWhere liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin FranklinWhere sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin FranklinWhere there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin FranklinWho had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin FranklinWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinWho is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin FranklinWho 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 FranklinWine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin FranklinWise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin FranklinWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin FranklinWords may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinWork as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinWrite your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinYou can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin FranklinYou may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin FranklinYour net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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