Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of chess.

— Benjamin Franklin

Education begins with life.

— Benjamin Franklin

Time is the stuff life is made of.

— Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

— Benjamin Franklin

Half the truth is often a great lie.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

— Benjamin Franklin

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

— Benjamin Franklin

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Life's greatest tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and arent buried until they are seventy five.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and arent buried until 75.

— Benjamin Franklin

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

— Benjamin Franklin

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man…

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

— Benjamin Franklin

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that…

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct…

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

— Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

— Benjamin Franklin

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding…

— Benjamin Franklin

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into…

— Benjamin Franklin

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all…

— Benjamin Franklin

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in…

— Benjamin Franklin

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a…

— Benjamin Franklin

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects,…

— Benjamin Franklin

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us…

— Benjamin Franklin

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath…

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having…

— Benjamin Franklin

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they…

— Benjamin Franklin

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

— Benjamin Franklin