Benjamin Franklin Quotes

One today is worth two tomorrows.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

~ Benjamin Franklin

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

~ Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

~ Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

~ Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the best policy.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

~ Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

~ Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

~ Benjamin Franklin