All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting… Advantage
- Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be… Affair
- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and… Acquiring
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.… Adopted
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great… Certain
- Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than… Build
- Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. Aging
- Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. Eating
- How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! Birthday
- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Dead
- Most fools think they are only ignorant. Fool
- If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned. Bald
- A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. Advice
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… Abolish
- It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. Air
- All would live long, but none would be old. Age
- Women are books, and men the readers be... Book
- All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books. All
- Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away Door
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… Affair
- whatever you become be good at it Good
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Anticipate
- Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Agnostic
- He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas. Dog
- Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended. China