Benjamin Franklin

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

— Benjamin Franklin

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

— Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

— Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

— Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

— Benjamin Franklin

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.”

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

— Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

— Benjamin Franklin

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

— Benjamin Franklin

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

— Benjamin Franklin

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body

— Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

— Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

— Benjamin Franklin

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

— Benjamin Franklin

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

— Benjamin Franklin

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

— Benjamin Franklin

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

— Benjamin Franklin

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

— Benjamin Franklin

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

— Benjamin Franklin

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

— Benjamin Franklin

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, or surely we shall hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

— Benjamin Franklin

The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.

— Benjamin Franklin