All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- Creditors have better memories than debtors. Better
- He that rises late must trot all day. All
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Dear
- He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. Borrowed
- You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Bear
- Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Call
- Beauty and folly are old companions. Beauty
- When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Agree
- Beware the hobby that eats. Beware
- Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Buying
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Defrauding
- He that speaks much, is much mistaken. Inspirational
- Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Executed
- Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. Age
- Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Portion
- He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Fall
- He that won't be counseled can't be helped. Advice
- Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. Benefits
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Discarded
- There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Great
- God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Behold
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. Education
- Games lubricate the body and the mind. Body
- If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. Borrow
- Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. Fire