All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. All
- Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. All
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the… All
- Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. All
- I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Age
- Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. Ashamed
- As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Account
- If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Cooperation
- Where liberty is, there is my country. Country
- I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Death
- Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. Enemies
- At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. Age
- The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Becomes
- It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Feel
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Less
- To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Alone
- Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. Anti War
- A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Cake
- It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Appearance
- The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Anti Religious
- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Encouragement
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Bad
- Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Diligence
- If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. All
- Never confuse motion with action. Acting