Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

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

Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.

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

Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.

We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.

Lost time is never found again.

You may delay but time will not.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

The proud hate pride - in others.

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

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.