Top 1425 Quotes & Sayings by Benjamin Franklin - Page 2
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Time is money.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Remember that credit is money.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
God helps those who help themselves.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Applause waits on success.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Hunger is the best pickle.
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.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
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