Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Time is money.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Applause waits on success.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Remember that credit is money.

God helps those who help themselves.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.