Selected quotes · 60
№ 01
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
Benjamin FranklinHappiness
№ 02
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'”
Benjamin FranklinCourage
№ 03
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 04
“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”
Benjamin FranklinLove
№ 05
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 06
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 07
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
Benjamin FranklinLife
№ 08
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin FranklinTime
№ 09
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
Benjamin FranklinJustice
№ 10
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 11
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 12
“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 FranklinFreedom
№ 13
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 14
“Lost time is never found again.”
Benjamin FranklinTime
№ 15
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 16
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 17
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 18
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
Benjamin FranklinPhilosophy
№ 19
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 20
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 21
“Beauty and folly are old companions.”
Benjamin FranklinFriendship
№ 22
“Laws without morals are in vain.”
Benjamin FranklinJustice
№ 23
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Benjamin FranklinFailure
№ 24
“There are no gains without pains.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 25
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 26
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin FranklinFaith
№ 27
“Honesty is the best policy.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 28
“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
Benjamin FranklinJustice
№ 29
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 30
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
Benjamin FranklinAction
№ 31
“Time is money.”
Benjamin FranklinTime
№ 32
“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”
Benjamin FranklinFriendship
№ 33
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, the state in which you will find solid happiness.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 34
“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 35
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Benjamin FranklinFriendship
№ 36
“You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 37
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 38
“Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 39
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 40
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 41
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
Benjamin FranklinTime
№ 42
“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
Benjamin FranklinFaith
№ 43
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
Benjamin FranklinFreedom
№ 44
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 45
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
Benjamin FranklinHappiness
№ 46
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
Benjamin FranklinMindset
№ 47
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
Benjamin FranklinTime
№ 48
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
Benjamin FranklinAction
№ 49
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 50
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 51
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 52
“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 53
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Benjamin FranklinFailure
№ 54
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin FranklinLife
№ 55
“Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.”
Benjamin FranklinCreativity
№ 56
“By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”
Benjamin FranklinFailure
№ 57
“Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.”
Benjamin FranklinAction
№ 58
“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
Benjamin FranklinWisdom
№ 59
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
Benjamin FranklinCourage
№ 60
“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
Benjamin FranklinFaith