Benjamin Franklin Quotes

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
-Benjamin Franklin in Energy quotes.

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."
-Benjamin Franklin in Happiness quotes.

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. "
-Benjamin Franklin

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of."
-Benjamin Franklin

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
-Benjamin Franklin

"He that can have patience can have what he will. "
-Benjamin Franklin

"In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
-Benjamin Franklin in Growth quotes.

"Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame."
-Benjamin Franklin

"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
-Benjamin Franklin in Memory quotes.

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
-Benjamin Franklin

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
-Benjamin Franklin in Money quotes.

"He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. "
-Benjamin Franklin

"Fish and visitors smell in three days."
-Benjamin Franklin

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
-Benjamin Franklin

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. "
-Benjamin Franklin

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
-Benjamin Franklin

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
-Benjamin Franklin in Vices quotes.

"Early morning hath gold in its mouth."
-Benjamin Franklin