Benjamin Franklin

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

age


Benjamin Franklin

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

business


Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes

death


Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace

war


Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today

success


Benjamin Franklin

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

others


Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.


Benjamin Franklin

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.


Benjamin Franklin

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.


Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.


Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.


Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.


Benjamin Franklin

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


Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.


Benjamin Franklin

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.


Benjamin Franklin

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


Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.


Benjamin Franklin

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.


Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.


Benjamin Franklin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.


Benjamin Franklin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.


Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.


Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.


Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.


Benjamin Franklin

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


Benjamin Franklin

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

business


Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

age


Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

alone


Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

anger


Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

anger


Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

anniversary


Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

art


Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

beauty


Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

best


Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is the best policy.

best


Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

best


Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.

best


Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.

best


Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

business


Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

business


Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

business


Benjamin Franklin

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.

change


Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

courage


Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

death


Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

education


Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

education


Benjamin Franklin

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

experience


Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

failure


Benjamin Franklin

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

faith


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