Benjamin Franklin - From the Activity category:
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Advice category:
He that won't be counselled can't be helped. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Advice category:
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Attitude category:
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Authority category:
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Business category:
Beware of little expenses: A small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Change category:
When you're finished changing, you're finished. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Criticism category:
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Desire category:
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Drunkenness category:
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Drunkenness category:
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Editing category:
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)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Education category:
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Failure category:
I didn't fail the test; I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Fire category:
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Freedom category:
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Friendship category:
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Friendship category:
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Genius category:
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Happiness category:
In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Happiness category:
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Happiness category:
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Health category:
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Humanity category:
All humanity is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move! (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Humility category:
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Insecurity category:
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Knowledge category:
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Knowledge category:
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Life category:
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Life category:
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Money category:
If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Movement category:
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Obligation category:
Think of these things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Passion category:
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Patience category:
He that can have patience can have what he will. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Peace category:
Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Planning category:
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Pleasure category:
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Preparation category:
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Procrastination category:
You may delay, but time will not. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Quotations category:
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Sleep category:
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Studio category:
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Talent category:
Hide not your talents, they for use were made, / What's a sundial in the shade? (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Thinking category:
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Time category:
Remember that time is money. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Vanity category:
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Wisdom category:
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Words category:
Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Words category:
Here comes the orator! with his flood of words, and his drop of reason. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Work category:
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Worry category:
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. (Benjamin Franklin)
Benjamin Franklin - From the Writing category:
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Benjamin Franklin)
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