He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin Excuses Copy Share Image
If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect.… — Benjamin Franklin Capable Copy Share Image
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines. — Benjamin Franklin Healing Copy Share Image
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. — Benjamin Franklin All time Copy Share Image
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and… — Benjamin Franklin Common Copy Share Image
Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful. — Benjamin Franklin Being successful Copy Share Image
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out… — Benjamin Franklin Agnostic Copy Share Image
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. — Benjamin Franklin Age Copy Share Image
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. — Benjamin Franklin Death Copy Share Image
“Somebody, it seemed, gave it out that I loved ladies; and then everybody presented me their ladies (or the ladies presented themselves)… — Benjamin Franklin Libertine Copy Share Image
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed. — Benjamin Franklin Harsh Copy Share Image
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin Advice Copy Share Image
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices. — Benjamin Franklin Class Copy Share Image
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin Absent Copy Share Image
Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin. — Benjamin Franklin Book Copy Share Image
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. — Benjamin Franklin Common Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Animosity Copy Share Image
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat. — Benjamin Franklin Meat Copy Share Image
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that… — Benjamin Franklin Consideration Copy Share Image
