Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Beware the hobby that eats.

You may delay, but time will not.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

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

Well done is better than well said.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.