Benjamin Franklin Quotes

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Applause waits on success.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

There is no little enemy

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The best is the cheapest.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.

The world is run by the people who show up.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.