Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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.

Honesty is the best policy.

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

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

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

Beware the hobby that eats.

Lost time is never found again.

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.

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.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.