Benjamin Franklin Quotes
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Take it from Richard, poor and lame,
what's begun in anger ends in shame.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Let thy Discontents be Secrets.
Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
The Wolf sheds his Coat once a Year, his Disposition never.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Nothing is more fatal to health an over care of it.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.
They that won't be counselled, can't be helped.
They who have nothing to be troubled at,
will be troubled at nothing.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Act uprightly, and despise calumny; Dirt may stick to a mud wal, but not to polished marble.
Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, Discourse a clear Man.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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.
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
Fish and visitors stink in three days.
Have you somewhat to do tomorrow; do it today.
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
