Benjamin Franklin

“I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

— Benjamin Franklin

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

— Benjamin Franklin

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

— Benjamin Franklin

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

“It isn't what you know that counts,it's what you think of in time”.”

— Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

“A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

— Benjamin Franklin

Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

— Benjamin Franklin

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

— Benjamin Franklin

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Aku lebih suka mengatakan, dia hidup berguna, daripada dia meninggal kaya raya.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

— Benjamin Franklin

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

— Benjamin Franklin

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

— Benjamin Franklin

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

— Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

— Benjamin Franklin

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

— Benjamin Franklin

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

— Benjamin Franklin

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

— Benjamin Franklin

The United States Constitution only gives the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

— Benjamin Franklin

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

— Benjamin Franklin