Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.