Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman.

Found 199 thoughts of 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

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Benjamin Franklin

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Benjamin Franklin

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I am in the prime of senility.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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.

You may delay, but time will not.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

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

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

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

Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.