Benjamin Franklin's Quotes

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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Honesty is the best policy.

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

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When in doubt, don't.

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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A penny saved is a penny earned.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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Remember that credit is money.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

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Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

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

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

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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

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

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

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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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

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

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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

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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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Beware the hobby that eats.

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