Benjamin Franklin Quotes
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones: when will mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their differences?
He that best understands the World, least likes it.
He that rises late must trot all day.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
The way to be safe, is never to be secure.
Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and keep.
He that cannot beat with other peoples passions, cannot govern his own.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
What's given shines,
What's receiv'd is rusty.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
A man that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
Well done is better than well said.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Humility makes great men twice honourable.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books.
