Benjamin Franklin Of Quotations

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

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

A good example is the best sermon.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Never confuse motion with action.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

Read much, but not too many books.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.