Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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.

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