Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

...for Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt...

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

The things which hurt, instruct.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

Applause waits on success.

When in doubt, don't.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

All would live long but none would be old.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.