Benjamin Franklin Man Quotations

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

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.

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never

If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.

If a man could half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of...

There is always room for the man of force.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

To the discontented man no chair is easy

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.

Every Man has Assurance enough to boast of his honesty, few of their Understanding.

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.

A true great Man will neither trample on a Worm, nor sneak to an Emperor.

The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist

A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have

A man is not completely born until he be dead.

A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

If man could have half his wishes he would double his troubles

He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.

The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart

The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts his Sight: What stranger wonders does he write?

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing

For 6 l. a Year, you may have the Use of 100 l. if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty.

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

For one poor Man there are an hundred indigent.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.