Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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.

You may delay, but time will not.

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.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

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.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Beware the hobby that eats.

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.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.