Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

He that's secure is not safe.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.