Quotes By Benjamin Franklin."It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
Benjamin Franklin
Biography
Author Profession: Politician
Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790
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.
Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Author Profession: Politician
Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790
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.
Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin Franklin
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin
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