Benjamin Franklin

Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Benjamin Franklin

Biography : Born: 1706 - Died: 1790
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Benjamin Franklin - Quotes

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
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happiness

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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time

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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time

Half a truth is often a great lie.
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truth

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
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patience

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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life

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

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
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Fatigue is the best pillow.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Remember that credit is money.
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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
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love

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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love

Beauty and folly are old companions.
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beauty

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

God helps those who help themselves.
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help

Hunger is the best pickle.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
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