Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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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.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Lost time is never found again.
Well done is better than well said.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
You may delay, but time will not.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
It 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.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
You may delay, but time will not.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Never confuse motion with action.
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Money 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.
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses, or fine furniture.
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.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. 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.
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There 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.
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
He that rises late must trot all day.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
God helps those who help themselves.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
If you would be loved, love, and be lovable.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, 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.
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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.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
We 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.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
I 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Those 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.
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.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
He that rises late must trot all day.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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.
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