Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

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

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

God helps them that help themselves.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

You tell me, and I forget You teach me, and I remember You involve me, and I learn

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

What you would seem to be, be really.

the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.