Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

• I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
• I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
• I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
• If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
• If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
• In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.