Benjamin Franklin Quotes (733 Quotes)

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

Never contradict anybody.

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

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.

'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.

The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be

An empty bag cannot stand upright.

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

If thou hast wit learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty.

You will be careful, if you are wise How you touch Men's Religion, or Credit, or Eyes.

If you do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will

Beware of meat twice boiled, And an old foe reconciled.

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Remember that time is money.

Take Courage, Mortal Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

A small leak can sink a great ship.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it.... Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

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

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.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.

Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water

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

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

He that possesses any Thing he has bought, pays Interest for the Use of it.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

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.'

Industry need not wish.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.