Benjamin Franklin

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

— Benjamin Franklin

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

— Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

— Benjamin Franklin

“Now I have a sheep and cow, everybody bids me good morrow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

— Benjamin Franklin

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

— Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

— Benjamin Franklin

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make…

— Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half…

— Benjamin Franklin

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could…

— Benjamin Franklin

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their…

— Benjamin Franklin

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing…

— Benjamin Franklin

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

— Benjamin Franklin

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

— Benjamin Franklin

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

— Benjamin Franklin

“The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

— Benjamin Franklin

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man separated from his reflective belt is no man at all.

— Benjamin Franklin

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

— Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

— Benjamin Franklin

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

— Benjamin Franklin

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

— Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

— Benjamin Franklin

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

— Benjamin Franklin

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

— Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

— Benjamin Franklin

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

— Benjamin Franklin

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

— Benjamin Franklin

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin