Benjamin Franklin Quotes

“Women are books, and men the readers be.”

“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”

“America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.”

“You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.”

“A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.”

“If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.”

“Nothing preaches better than the act.”

“Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many.”

“When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.”

“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.”

“All cats look gray in the dark.”

“Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.”

“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.”

“Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.”

“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.”

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

“If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today”

“If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.”

“So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.”

“God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'”

“I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'”