All Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- A good example is the best sermon. Action
- Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. Awesome
- Fish and visitors smell in three days. Days
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Begin
- Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. End
- Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please. Ease
- Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. Confidence
- Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. Enemies
- When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. Conservative
- Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen. Chosen
- Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. Eat
- After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. Days
- To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote. Antidote
- Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. Boys
- If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. Beauty
- This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… Autobiography
- If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. Alike
- To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. Faults
- For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. Best
- It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on Cruelty
- Eat to live, don't live to eat. Delicious Food
- A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. Brother
- Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you… Conduct
- Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. Deserve
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Apple