Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

There is no gains without pain.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

He that's content hath enough.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Man is a tool-making animal

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.