All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather. Content
- Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. Cost
- A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward. Coward
- Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow. Bids
- Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth. Cold
- The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone. Alone
- One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. Body
- Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. Beware
- Fear to do ill, and you need fear else. Deeds
- Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all. All
- Despair ruins some, presumption many. Despair
- By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. Bit
- He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. Day
- The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer. Both
- Approve not of him who commends all you say. All
- If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. Any
- The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it. Generosity
- No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious. Glorious
- In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. Humility
- Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues All
- No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. Common
- The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch All
- The misers cheese is wholesomest Cheese
- If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of… Accumulating
- Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. Govern