Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Founding Fathers of the United States. Author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
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A countryman between two lawyers is just like a fish between two cats.
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Time is money.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
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Fish and visitors smell in three days.
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Remember that time is money.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Lost time is never found again.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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Promises may fit the friends, but non- performance will turn them into enemies.
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
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I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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Little strokes fell great oaks.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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He that cannot obey, cannot command.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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Security without liberty is called prison.
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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.
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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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.
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
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Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as than being unwilling to learn.
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Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.
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Observe all men; thy self most.
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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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