Benjamin Franklin

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

— Benjamin Franklin

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

— Benjamin Franklin

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

— Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

— Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

— Benjamin Franklin

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

— Benjamin Franklin

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

— Benjamin Franklin

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

— Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

— Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

— Benjamin Franklin

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

— Benjamin Franklin

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

— Benjamin Franklin

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

— Benjamin Franklin

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

— Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

— Benjamin Franklin

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

— Benjamin Franklin

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

— Benjamin Franklin

“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

— Benjamin Franklin

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

— Benjamin Franklin

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

— Benjamin Franklin

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

— Benjamin Franklin

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

— Benjamin Franklin

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

— Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

— Benjamin Franklin