Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Mine is better than ours.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

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

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

You may delay, but time will not.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

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

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