Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

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

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

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

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

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

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

Here Skugg lies snugAs a bug in a rug.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

Remember that time is money.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.