Famous Quotes

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
• The doors of wisdom are never shut.
• 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.