Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

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

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

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

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

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

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

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.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

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

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

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

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

You may delay, but time will not.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Beware the hobby that eats.