Benjamin Franklin Quotes: 36

• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

• I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

• Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

• If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

• He that can have patience can have what he will.

• A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

• In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

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

• Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

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

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

• How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

• Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

• Well done is better than well said.

• Lost Time is never found again.

  Poor Richard's Almanack

• Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

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

• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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• The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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

• If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

• Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 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.

• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

• If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

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• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

• You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

• The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

• One today is worth two tomorrows.

• Games lubricate the body and mind.