Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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.

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.

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

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.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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.