Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

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

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

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

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Fatigue is the best pillow.