Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
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
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
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
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
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
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
