Benjamin Franklin quotes

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness exists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to man in the course of his life.

Benjamin Franklin

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Benjamin Franklin

Whatever has begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends, and old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist, and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade.

Benjamin Franklin

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

He that won't be counselled can't be helped.

Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Benjamin Franklin

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

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