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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer [more author details]
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- He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin
- He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
- How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.
- Benjamin Franklin
- I am in the prime of senility.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- Benjamin Franklin
- If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- 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
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin
- So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
- Benjamin Franklin
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin
- You may delay, but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
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