Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

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

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

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

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Observe all men, thyself most.

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

An empty bag cannot stand upright.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am Yours, B. Franklin

Three removes is as bad as a fire.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

One of the greatest captains of the age.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years,Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.