Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

God helps them that helps themselves.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.

We must all hang together, else we shalFall hang separately.

Take time for all things.