Benjamin Franklin Quotes
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
There are no gains, without pains.
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
Drive thy business; let not that drive thee.
As we must account for every idle word,
so we must for every idle silence.
A small leak can sink a great ship.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
He that can have Patience, can have what he will.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
When you're good to others, you are best to yourself.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stands a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure, too.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
All mankind is divided into three classes:
Those that are immovable,
Those that are movable, and
Those that move.
Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
