Benjamin Franklin Quotes And Sayings

Without Freedom Of Thought, There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom - And No Such Thing As Public Liberty Without Freedom Of Speech.

Tomorrow, Every Fault Is To Be Amended; But That Tomorrow Never Comes.

In The Affairs Of This World, Men Are Saved Not By Faith, But By The Want Of It.

She Laughs At Everything You Say. Why? Because She Has Fine Teeth.

I Look Upon Death To Be As Necessary To Our Constitution As Sleep. We Shall Rise Refreshed In The Morning.

All Wars Are Follies, Very Expensive And Very Mischievous Ones.

Never Take A Wife Till Thou Hast A House (And A Fire) To Put Her In.

Wars Are Not Paid For In Wartime, The Bill Comes Later.

When Will Mankind Be Convinced And Agree To Settle Their Difficulties By Arbitration?

He That Speaks Much, Is Much Mistaken.

To Lengthen Thy Life, Lessen Thy Meals.

Tell Me And I Forget. Teach Me And I Remember. Involve Me And I Learn.

I Didn't Fail The Test, I Just Found 100 Ways To Do It Wrong.

One Today Is Worth Two Tomorrows.

Speak Ill Of No Man, But Speak All The Good You Know Of Everybody.

Do Good To Your Friends To Keep Them, To Your Enemies To Win Them.

There Are Two Ways Of Being Happy: We Must Either Diminish Our Wants Or Augment Our Means - Either May Do - The Result Is The Same And It Is For Each Man To Decide For Himself And To Do That Which Happens To Be Easier.

No Nation Was Ever Ruined By Trade.

Those Have A Short Lent Who Owe Money To Be Paid At Easter.

In My Youth, I Traveled Much, And I Observed In Different Countries, That The More Public Provisions Were Made For The Poor, The Less They Provided For Themselves, And Of Course Became Poorer. And, On The Contrary, The Less Was Done For Them, The More They Did For Themselves, And Became Richer.

A Child Thinks 20 Shillings And 20 Years Can Scarce Ever Be Spent.

Blessed Is He That Expects Nothing, For He Shall Never Be Disappointed.

Danger Is Sauce For Prayers.

Whatever Is Begun In Anger Ends In Shame.

He That Sows Thorns Should Never Go Barefoot.

Don't Throw Stones At Your Neighbors If Your Own Windows Are Glass.

There Cannot Be A Stronger Natural Right Than That Of A Man's Making The Best Profit He Can Of The Natural Produce Of His Lands.

From A Child I Was Fond Of Reading, And All The Little Money That Came Into My Hands Was Ever Laid Out In Books. Pleased With The 'Pilgrim's Progress,' My First Collection Was Of John Bunyan's Works In Separate Little Volumes.

My Elder Brothers Were All Put Apprentices To Different Trades. I Was Put To The Grammar-school At Eight Years Of Age, My Father Intending To Devote Me, As The Tithe Of His Sons, To The Service Of The Church.

So Convenient A Thing It Is To Be A Reasonable Creature, Since It Enables One To Find Or Make A Reason For Every Thing One Has A Mind To Do.

In Reality, There Is, Perhaps, No One Of Our Natural Passions So Hard To Subdue As Pride.

Let All Your Things Have Their Places; Let Each Part Of Your Business Have Its Time.

I Have No Private Interest In The Reception Of My Inventions By The World, Having Never Made, Nor Proposed To Make, The Least Profit By Any Of Them.

Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors, And Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man.

He That Has Not Got A Wife Is Not Yet A Complete Man.

A Penny Saved Is Two Pence Clear.

A False Friend And A Shadow Attend Only While The Sun Shines.

As We Enjoy Great Advantages From The Inventions Of Others, We Should Be Glad Of An Opportunity To Serve Others By Any Invention Of Ours, And This We Should Do Freely And Generously.

Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn And Complain - And Most Fools Do.

Some People Die At 25 And Aren't Buried Until 75.

Lost Time Is Never Found Again.

Honesty Is The Best Policy.

Your Net Worth To The World Is Usually Determined By What Remains After Your Bad Habits Are Subtracted From Your Good Ones.

It Is Easier To Prevent Bad Habits Than To Break Them.

Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience To God.

You May Delay, But Time Will Not.

Wine Is Constant Proof That God Loves Us And Loves To See Us Happy.

If We Do Not Hang Together, We Shall Surely Hang Separately.

An Egg Today Is Better Than A Hen To-morrow.

When Men And Woman Die, As Poets Sung, His Heart's The Last Part Moves, Her Last, The Tongue.