Benjamin Franklin Quotes

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.

Nine Men in Ten are Suicides.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

He that's secure is not safe.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

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

Our necessities never equal our wants.

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

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

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

No gains without pains.

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.