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			Benjamin Franklin Quotes A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Benjamin Franklin A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Benjamin Franklin A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Benjamin Franklin A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. Benjamin Franklin A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Benjamin Franklin A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin A place for everything, everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin A small leak can sink a great ship Benjamin Franklin Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Benjamin Franklin Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. Benjamin Franklin All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. Benjamin Franklin 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 Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. Benjamin Franklin An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them? Benjamin Franklin And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. Benjamin Franklin Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Benjamin Franklin Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin Applause waits on success. Benjamin Franklin As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. 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 Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences. Benjamin Franklin Beauty and folly are old companions. Benjamin Franklin Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin Beware the hobby that eats. Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. Benjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Clean your finger before you point at my spots. Benjamin Franklin Creditors have better memories than debtors. Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin Distrust and caution are the parents of security. Benjamin Franklin Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. Benjamin Franklin Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. Benjamin Franklin Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. Benjamin Franklin Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin 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 For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail. Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. Benjamin Franklin Games lubricate the body and the mind. Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Benjamin Franklin Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. Benjamin Franklin He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. Benjamin Franklin He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Benjamin Franklin He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin He that lives upon hope will die fasting. 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 He that rises late must trot all day. Benjamin Franklin He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. Benjamin Franklin He that won't be counseled can't be helped. Benjamin Franklin He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin He that's secure is not safe. Benjamin Franklin He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. Benjamin Franklin He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. Benjamin Franklin Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. Benjamin Franklin Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin Honesty is the best policy. Benjamin Franklin How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Benjamin Franklin Hunger is the best pickle. Benjamin Franklin I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. Benjamin Franklin 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 I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Benjamin Franklin I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. Benjamin Franklin I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Benjamin Franklin I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. Benjamin Franklin 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 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 If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. Benjamin Franklin If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. Benjamin Franklin 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 If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. Benjamin Franklin If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. Benjamin Franklin If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Benjamin Franklin If you desire many things, many things will seem few. Benjamin Franklin If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. Benjamin Franklin If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. Benjamin Franklin If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life. Benjamin Franklin In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Industry need not wish. Benjamin Franklin 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 It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Benjamin Franklin It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Benjamin Franklin It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Benjamin Franklin Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Benjamin Franklin 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 Let thy discontents be thy secrets. Benjamin Franklin Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. Benjamin Franklin Lying rides upon debt's back. Benjamin Franklin 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 Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin Many foxes grow gray but few grow good. Benjamin Franklin Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. Benjamin Franklin Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin Mine is better than ours. 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 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 Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. Benjamin Franklin Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. Benjamin Franklin Nine men in ten are would be suicides. Benjamin Franklin Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it. Benjamin Franklin Observe all men, thyself most. Benjamin Franklin One today is worth two tomorrows. Benjamin Franklin Our necessities never equal our wants. Benjamin Franklin Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. Benjamin Franklin Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin 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 Remember that credit is money. Benjamin Franklin Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Benjamin Franklin She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. Benjamin Franklin Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. Benjamin Franklin Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. Benjamin Franklin Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. Benjamin Franklin The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Benjamin Franklin The discontented man finds no easy chair. Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. Benjamin Franklin The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. Benjamin Franklin The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense. Benjamin Franklin The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. Benjamin Franklin The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. 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 The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. Benjamin Franklin The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Benjamin Franklin There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. Benjamin Franklin There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Benjamin Franklin There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin There was never a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security Benjamin Franklin Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Those that won't be counseled can't be helped. 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 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret if two are dead. Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead Benjamin Franklin Time is money. Benjamin Franklin To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. Benjamin Franklin To err is human; to repent, divine; to persist, devilish. Benjamin Franklin To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. Benjamin Franklin Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. Benjamin Franklin Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes. Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Benjamin Franklin Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Benjamin Franklin We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately. Benjamin Franklin We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin What has become clear to you since we last met? Benjamin Franklin What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade? Benjamin Franklin Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. Benjamin Franklin When in doubt, don't. Benjamin Franklin When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Benjamin Franklin When you're finished changing, you're finished. Benjamin Franklin Where liberty is, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. Benjamin Franklin Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion. Benjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. Benjamin Franklin Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Benjamin Franklin Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. Benjamin Franklin You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Benjamin Franklin You may delay, but time will not. 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