Benjamin Franklin

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who says Jack is not generous? He is always fond of giving, and cares not for receiving. What? Why; Advice.

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

— Benjamin Franklin

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

— Benjamin Franklin

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

— Benjamin Franklin

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

— Benjamin Franklin

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

— Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

— Benjamin Franklin

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

— Benjamin Franklin

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

— Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

— Benjamin Franklin

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly”

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“After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!”

— Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

— Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

— Benjamin Franklin

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

— Benjamin Franklin

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

— Benjamin Franklin

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

— Benjamin Franklin

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

— Benjamin Franklin

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

— Benjamin Franklin

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

— Benjamin Franklin

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

— Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

— Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin