Benjamin Franklin Quotes

If you want a thing done go if not send.

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

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

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

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

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

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.