Benjamin Franklin's Quotes
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin FranklinKeep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin FranklinHonesty is the best policy.
Benjamin FranklinThere are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin FranklinWhen in doubt, don't.
Benjamin FranklinThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinA penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin FranklinThose 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.
Benjamin FranklinRemember that credit is money.
Benjamin FranklinThe use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin FranklinIf you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin FranklinHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinFrom 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.
Benjamin FranklinThose have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin FranklinBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinThere was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinHe that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin FranklinWise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin FranklinContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinBeing ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinTo Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinWork as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinHe that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin FranklinHow few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin FranklinIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinIn the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinI saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin FranklinBeware the hobby that eats.
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