Benjamin Franklin famous quotes

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Government #Guarantees

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspiring #Leadership #Teacher

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Freedom #Independent #Science

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Witty #Money

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Gun #Government #Citizens

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Christmas #Honesty

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Perseverance

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Learning #Ignorance

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Clever #Motivation #4th Of July

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Mean #Thinking #Way

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July #Men #Law

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Funny #Inspiring #Money

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July #Speak #Mistaken

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Freedom #Gun

Security without liberty is called prison.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Patriotic #Liberty #Prison

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Wine

Remember that credit is money.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Money #Credit #Remember

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning...
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Morning #Prayer #Moving

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Men #Doe #He Man

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #God #Healing

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Courage #Faults #Enough

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Preparation #Hours #Minutes

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#World #Lasts #Said

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Roots #Teeth #Half

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

#Wisdom #Honesty #Integrity

When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspiring

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Leadership #Sports #Done

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Motivational #Attitude #War

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

#Success #Men #Speak

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Positive #Mother #Children

No gains without pains.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Pain #Gains #Conservative

Doing your best means never stop trying.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Hard Work #Mean #Trying

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Order

Speak little, do much.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Littles #Action #Speak

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Today #Tomorrow

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Enemy #Fear God

God helps them that help themselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Business

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Believe #Half #Belief

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

#Money #Use #Advantage

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

#Children #Patriotic #Passion

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Leadership #Patriotic #Independent

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Party #Drinking

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Brother #May

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Educational #Sleep #Poultry

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Rain #Wine #Roots

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Poverty #Poor #Should

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Perseverance #Yield #Wealth

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Learning

The cat in gloves catches no mice.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Cat #Gloves #Mice

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Learning #Rich #Frugal

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Funny #Hilarious #4th Of July

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Decision #Analysis #Investing

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Failing #Preparing

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Business

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Men #Liberty

you can do anything you set your mind to
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Mind

What I am to be, I am now becoming.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Becoming

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Book #Reading #Knowledge

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Motivational #Wise #Men

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Secret #May #Chess

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Mind #Pouring #Coins

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Morning #Beer #Night

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#One Day #Tomorrow #Thousand

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Money #Thinking #Saving

Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#People #Dresses

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Doctors #Lawyer

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Wisdom #Freedom #Patriotic

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Fitness #Medicine #Fasting

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July #Long #Wish

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.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Relationship #Uplifting

Lost time is never found again.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Positive #Time #Caring

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Practice #Political #Deception

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Wise #Anger #4th Of July

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Time #Short Life

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#New Beginnings #Opportunity #Succeed

Where liberty is, there is my country.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Country #Freedom #4th Of July

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Motivational #Death

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Country #Different #Done

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

#Motivational #Leadership #Confidence

A penny saved is a penny earned.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Funny #Inspiring #Money

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Self #People

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Men #Excuse #Dare

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Watches #Dollars #Care

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Love #Inspiring #Inspirational Life

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Long #May #Divine

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Funny #Good Morning #Names

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Happiness #Inspiring #Graduation

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

#Friendship #Leadership #Real Friends

Well done is better than well said.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Success #Motivational Sports

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Christmas #Moving #Evil

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Success #Reading

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Education #Teacher #Atheist

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Life #Improvement

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Wise #Money #4th Of July

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Men

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July #Fool

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July #Noses #Wipe