Inspiring Quotes by Benjamin Franklin - Page 2

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"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage"

"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease"

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest"

"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes"

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day"

"The discontented man finds no easy chair"

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75"

"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude"

"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed"

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

"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good"

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly"

"Those that won't be counseled can't be helped"

"Energy and persistence conquer all things"

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals"

"He that's secure is not safe"

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man"

"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"

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone"

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands"

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief"

"Observe all men, thyself most"

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

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins"

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it"

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"

"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities"

"God helps those who help themselves"

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do"

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

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy"

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody"

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them"

"Necessity never made a good bargain"

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later"

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions"

"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing"

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

"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"

"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"

"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous"

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

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste"

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some"

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first"

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately"

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