Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Well done is better than well said.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
energy and persistence conquers all things
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
You may delay, but time will not.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
The things which hurt, instruct.
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You may delay, but time will not.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Time is money.
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.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
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Well done, is better than well said.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
An old young man, will be a young old man.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Energy and persistence alter all things.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Honesty is the best policy.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
What has become clear to you since we last met?
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
A small leak can sink a great ship
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Read much, but not many books.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
Applause waits on success.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Never confuse motion with action.
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
There are no gains without pains.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Remember that credit is money.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
