Benjamin Franklin

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

- Benjamin Franklin

"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Energy and persistence conquers all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble"

- Benjamin Franklin

"By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution..."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life – that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Well done, is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Where liberty is, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Invest in yourself, it pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin

"By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompense."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth"

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Those things that hurt instruct."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same."

- Benjamin Franklin

""Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.""

- Benjamin Franklin

""God works wonders now and then; behold a lawyer, an honest man.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"Morning hath gold in its mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Humility makes great men twice honorable."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A barber lathering a man’s face is like a lion that thinks every man is a wildebeest—careful, yet daring."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."

- Benjamin Franklin

"By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"No gains without pains."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Time is money."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

""Well done, is better than well said.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

""The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”"

- Benjamin Franklin

"The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

- Benjamin Franklin

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"America, an immense territory, favour’d by nature with all advantages of climate, soil, great navigable rivers and lakes, &c., was destined to become a great country, populous and mighty; and would in a less time than was generally conceive’d be able to shake off any shackles that might be impos’d on her, and perhaps place them on the imposters."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see; But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

- Benjamin Franklin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We should rejoice in the success of others, not be envious of it."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The way to be safe is never to be secure."

- Benjamin Franklin

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is easier to prevent disease than to cure it."

- Benjamin Franklin

""For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"Things that hurt, instruct."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let every new year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

- Benjamin Franklin

"He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The best doctors give the least medicine."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Contentment is the philosopher's stone that turns everything it touches into gold."

- Benjamin Franklin

"'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The early morning has gold in its mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Where freedom is, there is my nation."

- Benjamin Franklin

"“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who love deeply never grow old, they may die of old age, but they die young."

- Benjamin Franklin

"For every minute spent on organizing, an hour is earned."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

- Benjamin Franklin

""Time is money.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

- Benjamin Franklin

"“You may delay, but time will not.”"

- Benjamin Franklin

"The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion."

- Benjamin Franklin

"How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I hope that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not have then so much reason to complain of hard times."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tis easier to present bad habits than to break them – Benjamin Franklin"

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

- Benjamin Franklin

""If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

- Benjamin Franklin

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?"

- Benjamin Franklin