Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Benjamin Franklin Quotes with Images
Benjamin Franklin Quotes with Images
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Better slip with foot than tongue.
Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.
Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.
Well done is better than well said.
He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.
What you seem to be, be really.
A right Heart exceeds all.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
No gains without pains.
A true Friend is the best Possession.
Lost Time is never found again.
What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.
Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself.
Haste makes Waste
It is better to take many Injuries than to give one.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Every man…is, of common right, and by the laws of God, a freeman, and entitled to the free enjoyment of liberty.
From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the portion, it is still the birthright of all men.
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.
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. […] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.
We need a revolution every 200 years because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
It seems to me that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
Security without liberty is called prison.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
You may delay, but time will not.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn.
I didn’t fail the test; I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Never confuse Motion with Action.
Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.
Words may show a man’s wit, actions his meaning.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
Employ your time well, if you mean to get leisure.
He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.
Having been poor is no shame; being ashamed of it is.
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.
Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?
To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.
The ancients tell us what is best, but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
In the Affairs of this World, Men are saved, not by faith, but by the Lack of it.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
Women are books, and men the readers be…
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Speak little, do much.
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
He that’s content, hath enough; He that complains has too much
The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.
Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.
Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
Those that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.