Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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.

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

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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

Beware the hobby that eats.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Well done is better than well said.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.