Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Success is the residue of planning.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Success has ruined many a man.

In success be moderate.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.