Benjamin Franklin Quotes

“A true friend is the greatest possesion.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”

“He that is rich need not live sparingly,and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.”

“We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.”

“The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'”

“Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.”

“The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.”

“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”

“Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues”

“Success has ruin'd many a man.”

“The Golden Age was never the present age.”

“A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.”

“Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.”

“Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.”

“When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?”

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”

“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”

“Observe all men, thyself most.”

“Lost time can never be found again”

“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”

“To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.”

“A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.”

“If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.”

“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.”