All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering. Forgotten
- When passion rules, she never rules wisely. Inspirational
- Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines. Eat
- Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many. Care
- And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us… Any
- The Golden Age was never the present age. Age
- Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. Culinary
- Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. Estates
- Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. Conformity
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… Academies
- I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether… Acquaintance
- There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. Attitude
- He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her. Buy
- He that's content hath enough. Content
- Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net. Debt
- Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming. Fire
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… Active
- What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. Inspirational
- Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be… Acceptable
- When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth. Eye
- Success has ruined many a man. Inspirational
- The used key is always bright. Always Bright
- Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy? Anything Men
- We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse… Abuse
- My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go… Affair