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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
— Benjamin Franklin
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
— Benjamin Franklin
No nation has ever been ruined by trade.
— Benjamin Franklin
When you are finished changing, you're finished.
— Benjamin Franklin
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
— Benjamin Franklin
I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful.
— Benjamin Franklin
Time is the stuff life is made of.
— Benjamin Franklin
Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.
— Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
— Benjamin Franklin
Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read.
— Benjamin Franklin
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
— Benjamin Franklin
Young citizens by the use of our institutions; our better acquaintance with
— Benjamin Franklin
Stand firm, don't flutter!
— Benjamin Franklin
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
— Benjamin Franklin
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
— Benjamin Franklin
A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
— Benjamin Franklin
As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
— Benjamin Franklin
Do well by doing good.
— Benjamin Franklin
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals
— Benjamin Franklin
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
— Benjamin Franklin
What I am to be, I am now becoming.
— Benjamin Franklin
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
— Benjamin Franklin
O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?
— Benjamin Franklin
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
— Benjamin Franklin
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
— Benjamin Franklin
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
— Benjamin Franklin
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.
— Benjamin Franklin
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031] — Benjamin Franklin
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031] — Benjamin Franklin
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
— Benjamin Franklin
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
— Benjamin Franklin
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
— Benjamin Franklin
A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.
— Benjamin Franklin
Getting it done is my reward.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that would thrive must ask his wife." It
— Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
— Benjamin Franklin
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
— Benjamin Franklin
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
— Benjamin Franklin
If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
— Benjamin Franklin
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
— Benjamin Franklin
Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.
— Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
— Benjamin Franklin
A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.
— Benjamin Franklin
The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing
— Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....
— Benjamin Franklin
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
— Benjamin Franklin
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
— Benjamin Franklin
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
— Benjamin Franklin
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
— Benjamin Franklin
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
— Benjamin Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
— Benjamin Franklin
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
— Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the best policy.
— Benjamin Franklin
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
— Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
— Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
— Benjamin Franklin
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
— Benjamin Franklin
Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
— Benjamin Franklin
Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75
— Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
— Benjamin Franklin
After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!
— Benjamin Franklin
Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.
— Benjamin Franklin
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
— Benjamin Franklin
Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.
— Benjamin Franklin
If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.
— Benjamin Franklin
It isn't what you know that counts,it's what you think of in time.
— Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
— Benjamin Franklin
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
— Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
— Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
— Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is like having two wolves and a lamb decide what is for dinner.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that best understands the world, least likes it
— Benjamin Franklin
Discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
— Benjamin Franklin
Make use of your friends by being of use to them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
— Benjamin Franklin
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
— Benjamin Franklin
Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?
— Benjamin Franklin
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.
— Benjamin Franklin
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
— Benjamin Franklin
to come on hereafter, was what
— Benjamin Franklin
Fatigue is the best pillow.
— Benjamin Franklin
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
— Benjamin Franklin
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
— 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
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best
— Benjamin Franklin
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.
— Benjamin Franklin
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
— Benjamin Franklin
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
— Benjamin Franklin
Those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither
— Benjamin Franklin
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
— Benjamin Franklin