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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
. . . I saw people willing to compromise themselves, or change themselves, to acquire what they thou...
KATHY IRELAND
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Frank...
JON BON JOVI
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT
In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me...
JOHN COLTRANE
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has ...
GARETH GATES
I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on h...
MARC JACOBS
Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been...
GARETH GATES
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might...
JAMES LEE BURKE
Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER
Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I h...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do t...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
Having access to an inland waterway is an important consideration, but perhaps even more critical is...
JIM REDDING
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
I had thought in those years, I suppose, having learned the lesson from my mother well, that it was ...
JOHANNA SKIBSRUD
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There's something about light that's right for these terrible subjects. It's a way of having beauty ...
JENNY HOLZER
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth...
CATHERINE CROWE
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest auth...
CATHERINE CROWE
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS...
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right thro...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude i...
JOHN WESLEY
One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brot...
ANNA NEAGLE
When BERTRAND RUSSELL The messages you received from your family or your childhood experiences may have caused you to beli...
BEVERLY ENGEL
But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it but by force....
ROBERT YATES
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, ...
JAMES LEE BURKE
Moments of reflection occur with calm deliberation and careful thought. Imagine the thoughts which w...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
Kissing you is.. I tried so had for so long to deny myself. I tried to do tho right thing. But ever ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
… scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no...
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or bur...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...
JANE AUSTEN
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ...
DAVID HUME
On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen...
DIANA ABU-JABER
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR.
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
BURL IVES
In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...
NEIL POSTMAN
I turned 40 when we started this project. Early on, it became a search for a role model for the agin...
DAYNA GOLDFINE
It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but ...
LILY COLLINS
i am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested.
'right, no one's ever lived long enou...
TOM CLANCY
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who wer...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I lit...
RENE RUSSO
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoa...
AGONA APELL
The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you car...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
I've been coaching the sport for a number of years. And I went through many athletes. Some athle...
LIANG CHOW
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
JAMES BOSWELL
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again...
TAD WILLIAMS
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN
The best part is we meet together and study all subjects. It's fun and we actually get to better our...
DANNA MAYLATH
I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
BOB EDWARDS
I think it's important for Iowa and New Hampshire to maintain their status because having lived thro...
JOHN EDWARDS
Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR
For nothing is of greater importance than that a powerful, long-established, and irrational custom s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I have found that it is better to be alone than in the wrong company. A single conversation with the...
JOHN MASON
Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work ...
COLIN BAKER
To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&...
HANNAH TOINTON
I want to make it easier for people to obtain information. I will strive to create a Web site for th...
CATHY BEER
I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I d...
PARK SHIN-HYE
Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depressio...
JULIUS ERVING
Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwis...
MAGNUS FLYTE
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan...
JAKE ARRIETA
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
PIERRE DE BEAUMARCHAIS
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS
When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the ...
C. S. LEWIS
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the ne...
WILLEM DE KOONING
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn'...
ASIF KAPADIA
Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL
I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of...
CANDIS CAYNE

More Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
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 wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Where liberty is, there is my country.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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 da...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
What has become clear to you since we last met?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Our necessities never equal our wants.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lying rides upon debt's back.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN