Benjamin Franklin Age Quotations

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

The Golden Age was never the present age.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

All would live long, but none would be old.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.