Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
• A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
• A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
• A place for everything, everything in its place.
• 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.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
• Applause waits on success.
• At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
• Beauty and folly are old companions.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
• Beware the hobby that eats.
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
• Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
• Diligence is the mother of good luck.
• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
• Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
• Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
• Fatigue is the best pillow.
• 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.
• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
• God helps those who help themselves.
• God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
• Half a truth is often a great lie.
• He that can have patience can have what he will.
• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
• 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.
• He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.