In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin Certain death Copy Share Image
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. — Benjamin Franklin Ease Copy Share Image
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. — Benjamin Franklin Blockhead Copy Share Image
If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today — Benjamin Franklin Ifs Copy Share Image
A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both. — Benjamin Franklin Brother Copy Share Image
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley. — Benjamin Franklin Dating Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin Health Copy Share Image
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Cruelty Copy Share Image
You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail. — Benjamin Franklin Angle Copy Share Image
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,… — Benjamin Franklin Good war Copy Share Image
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and… — Benjamin Franklin Beast Copy Share Image
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Education Copy Share Image
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do -… — Benjamin Franklin Being happy Copy Share Image
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may… — Benjamin Franklin Advice Copy Share Image
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin Freedom Copy Share Image
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach… — Benjamin Franklin Air Copy Share Image
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and… — Benjamin Franklin Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Academy Copy Share Image
“I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into… — Benjamin Franklin Three months Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Another way Copy Share Image
Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the… — Benjamin Franklin Foggy Copy Share Image
“I do not find that I grow any older. Being arrived at seventy, and considering that by traveling further in the same… — Benjamin Franklin Old friends Copy Share Image
Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes,… — Benjamin Franklin Character Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of… — Benjamin Franklin Amused Copy Share Image
