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