Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Honesty is the best policy.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Lost time is never found again.

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

Hunger is the best pickle.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

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

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.