Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“If you would know the worth of money, go and try to borrow some.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal… — 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
In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in… — 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
