Benjamin Franklin Quotes (733 Quotes)
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- Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard
(Benjamin Franklin)
- The discontented man finds no easy chair.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- A little neglect may breed great mischief, '... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost.'
(Benjamin Franklin)
- As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- 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.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- When in doubt, don't.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country he is a bird of bad immoral character like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things.
(Benjamin Franklin)
- Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.
(Benjamin Franklin)
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