Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

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

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

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

That which hurts, also instructs.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

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

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.