Benjamin Franklin quotes (87):

  • You may delay, but time will not.
  • Time is money.
  • He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
  • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
  • Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
  • Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
  • Lost time is never found again.
  • He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
  • He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
  • If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
  • If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
  • If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
  • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
  • Diligence is the mother of good luck.
  • If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
  • Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
  • Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
  • But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
  • I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
  • Energy and persistence conquer all thing.
  • Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
  • Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
  • No nation was ever ruined by trade.
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
  • To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
  • Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
  • It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
  • There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
  • Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
  • Remember that time is money.
  • Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.
  • Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
  • We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
  • If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
  • Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
  • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
  • Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
  • He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
  • Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  • As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
  • They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
  • There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
  • Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
  • Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  • After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
  • Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
  • He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
  • He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.
  • There is no little enemy.
  • Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.