Benjamin Franklin

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

— Benjamin Franklin

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

— Benjamin Franklin

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

— Benjamin Franklin

“After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!”

— Benjamin Franklin

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly”

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“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

— Benjamin Franklin

An investment in education always pays the highest returns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

— Benjamin Franklin

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

— Benjamin Franklin

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

— Benjamin Franklin

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

— Benjamin Franklin

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

— Benjamin Franklin

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

— Benjamin Franklin

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

— Benjamin Franklin

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

— Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

— Benjamin Franklin

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

— Benjamin Franklin

He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

— Benjamin Franklin

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

— Benjamin Franklin

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Quien renuncia a su libertad por seguridad, no merece ni libertad ni seguridad”

— Benjamin Franklin

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Melakukan yang terbaik lebih baik daripada mengucapkan yang terbaik”

— Benjamin Franklin

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

— Benjamin Franklin