Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

Speak little, do much.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Women are books, and men the readers be...

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

When the well is dry we know the value of water

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.