In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He that sells upon trust, loses many friends, and always wants money. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember this saying, The good payer is lord of another man's purse. He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image