A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A place for everything, everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
A small leak can sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Beauty and folly are old companions.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Fatigue is the best pillow.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
God helps those who help themselves.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that rises late must trot all day.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He that's secure is not safe.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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 Quote
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Industry need not wish.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Mine is better than ours.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
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 Quote
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Never confuse motion with action.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Observe all men, thyself most.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
One today is worth two tomorrows.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Remember that credit is money.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Time is money.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
When in doubt, don't.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Where liberty is, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
You may delay, but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
