Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Those things that hurt, instruct.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Success is the residue of planning.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Never praise your cider or your horse

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Take time for all things.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

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

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

What can laws do without morals?

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Let each new year find you a better person.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Handle your tools without mittens.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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

God helps them that help themselves.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.