“Life's greatest tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“... the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
