Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Time is the stuff life is made of.

— Benjamin Franklin

Education begins with life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

— Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

— Benjamin Franklin

Half the truth is often a great lie.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

— Benjamin Franklin

“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing”

— Benjamin Franklin

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

— Benjamin Franklin

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

— Benjamin Franklin

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that…

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct…

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

— Benjamin Franklin

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon…

— Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

— Benjamin Franklin

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any…

— Benjamin Franklin

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,…

— Benjamin Franklin

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a…

— Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on…

— Benjamin Franklin

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into…

— Benjamin Franklin

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity…

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having…

— Benjamin Franklin

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath…

— Benjamin Franklin

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

“That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

— Benjamin Franklin