It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
– Benjamin Franklin
Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.
– Benjamin Franklin
Security without liberty is called prison.
– Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
– Benjamin Franklin
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
– Benjamin Franklin
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
– Benjamin Franklin
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as than being unwilling to learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
– Benjamin Franklin
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
– Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
– Benjamin Franklin
Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
– Benjamin Franklin
Observe all men; thy self most.
– Benjamin Franklin
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
– Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
– Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
– Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
– Benjamin Franklin
I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
– Benjamin Franklin
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
– Benjamin Franklin
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
– Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
– Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes fell great oaks.
– Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
– Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
– Benjamin Franklin
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
– Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
– Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
– Benjamin Franklin