Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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 time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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.

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

Remember that credit is money.

God helps those who help themselves.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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

You may delay, but time will not.

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.