Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Honesty is the best policy.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Beware of the hobby that eats.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Above the clouds, the sun is always shining.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Hunger is the best pickle.

Remember that credit is money.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Mine is better than ours.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

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 Quotes

Time is money.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Well done is better than well said.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Lost time is never found again.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

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