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

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

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

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

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

— 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

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

— Benjamin Franklin

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

— Benjamin Franklin

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

— Benjamin Franklin

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

— Benjamin Franklin

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

— Benjamin Franklin

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ether Barrymore

— Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

— Benjamin Franklin

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

— Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

— Benjamin Franklin

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

— Benjamin Franklin

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

— Benjamin Franklin

My problem with the internet is that any fool can share a quote without even verifying its source

— Benjamin Franklin

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

“...as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken”

— Benjamin Franklin

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

— Benjamin Franklin

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

— Benjamin Franklin