Benjamin Franklin Quotes

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Innocence is its own defense.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

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

Let thy vices die before thee.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The best is the cheapest.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

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

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

Bad gains are true losses.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

Handle your tools without mittens.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.