Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?