Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin Deceit Copy Share Image
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. — Benjamin Franklin Diamond Copy Share Image
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even… — Benjamin Franklin Change Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and… — Benjamin Franklin Amendments Copy Share Image
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such… — Benjamin Franklin Chance Copy Share Image
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out… — Benjamin Franklin Agnostic Copy Share Image
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for… — Benjamin Franklin Animals Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any… — Benjamin Franklin Advantage Copy Share Image
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin Excuses Copy Share Image
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Breaking promises Copy Share Image
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. — Benjamin Franklin Good nature Copy Share Image
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. — Benjamin Franklin Cookery Copy Share Image
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. — Benjamin Franklin Death Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.” — Benjamin Franklin Diplomacy Copy Share Image
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin Education Copy Share Image
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other. — Benjamin Franklin Best teacher Copy Share Image
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others — Benjamin Franklin Bears Copy Share Image
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. — Benjamin Franklin Business Copy Share Image
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties — Benjamin Franklin Adversity Copy Share Image
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.) — Benjamin Franklin Bondage Copy Share Image
Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other. — Benjamin Franklin Kindness Copy Share Image
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. — Benjamin Franklin Awe Copy Share Image
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.” — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
