At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin Age Copy Share Image
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. — Benjamin Franklin Class Copy Share Image
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. — Benjamin Franklin Ends Copy Share Image
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors — Benjamin Franklin Books Copy Share Image
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin Born Copy Share Image
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin Example Copy Share Image
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. — Benjamin Franklin Debt Copy Share Image
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Certain Copy Share Image
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half… — Benjamin Franklin Ache Copy Share Image
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that. — Benjamin Franklin Damn Copy Share Image
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their… — Benjamin Franklin Free Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Born Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Allure Copy Share Image
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing… — Benjamin Franklin Animals Copy Share Image
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing… — Benjamin Franklin Diminish Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Complaining Copy Share Image
“The orator acknowledg'd the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavored to excuse the rum by saying, "The Great… — Benjamin Franklin Rum Appointed Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Arbitrary Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Barriers Copy Share Image
“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with… — Benjamin Franklin Children Copy Share Image
“On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections… — Benjamin Franklin Convention Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Books Copy Share Image
Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each… — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
