Quotes by

Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. – Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. – Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. – Benjamin Franklin

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

Wise men dont need advice. Fools wont take it. – Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his hearts the last part moves, her last, the tongue. – Benjamin Franklin

Where theres marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. – Benjamin Franklin

Lifes Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin

The U. S. Constitution doesnt guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. – Benjamin Franklin

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

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. – Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. – Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin