Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Man (57 Quotes)

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

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.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life A man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth,

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.'

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Life with fools consists in drinking with the wise man, thinking.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

It's the easiest Thing in the World for a Man to deceive himself.

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

There is always room for the man of force.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

Man is a tool-making animal.

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract

Success has ruind many a man.

Men and melons are hard to know.

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

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

When men are employed, they are best contented for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good days work, they spent the evening jollily but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

The Master-piece of Man, is to live to the purpose

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proof I see of this truththat God governs the affairs of men.

I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the

And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance I have lived a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this and I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.

If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

A man is not completely born until he be dead.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.

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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Good counsel failing men can give, for why He that's aground knows where the shoal doth lie

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.