Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
• The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
• The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
• The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
• 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.
• 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.
• Time is money.
• To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
• To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
• 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.
• Well done is better than well said.
• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
• When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
• Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
• You may delay, but time will not.
• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.