If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty. — Benjamin Franklin Add Copy Share Image
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Censorship Copy Share Image
“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.” — Benjamin Franklin Fools Copy Share Image
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. — Benjamin Franklin Laziness Copy Share Image
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. — Benjamin Franklin Anger Copy Share Image
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel. — Benjamin Franklin Enough Copy Share Image
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' — Benjamin Franklin Italian Copy Share Image
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Poetry Copy Share Image
“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how… — Benjamin Franklin Pity Copy Share Image
Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money… — Benjamin Franklin Money Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo… — Benjamin Franklin Casts Copy Share Image
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him. — Benjamin Franklin 4th of july Copy Share Image
I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his… — Benjamin Franklin Believe Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin Daily life Copy Share Image
Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions. — Benjamin Franklin Action Copy Share Image
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through… — Benjamin Franklin Born Copy Share Image
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did,… — Benjamin Franklin Acquire Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin American founding fathers Copy Share Image
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would… — Benjamin Franklin Add Copy Share Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin Begets Copy Share Image
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for… — Benjamin Franklin Alliances Copy Share Image
“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the… — Benjamin Franklin Butterfly effect Copy Share Image
It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength… — Benjamin Franklin Body Copy Share Image
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the… — Benjamin Franklin Accents Copy Share Image
