Benjamin Franklin

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

— Benjamin Franklin

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

— Benjamin Franklin

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

— Benjamin Franklin

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

— Benjamin Franklin

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

— Benjamin Franklin

“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.”

— Benjamin Franklin

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

— Benjamin Franklin

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

— Benjamin Franklin

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

— Benjamin Franklin

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

— Benjamin Franklin

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...

— Benjamin Franklin

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

— Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

— Benjamin Franklin

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

— Benjamin Franklin

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

— Benjamin Franklin

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Be cheerful—the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.” —Benjamin Franklin”

— Benjamin Franklin

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.”

— Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

— Benjamin Franklin

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

— Benjamin Franklin

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

— Benjamin Franklin

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

— Benjamin Franklin