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Quotations By Benjamin Franklin


Absence
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Action
Well done is better than well said.

Beauty
Beauty and folly are old companions.

Credit
Remember that credit is money.

Cunning
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.

Danger
Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Diligence
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Doctor
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Economy
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Economy
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.

Economy
A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.

Education
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Enemy
There is no little enemy.

Experience
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Family
He that raises a large family does,indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Independence
[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.

Inspiration
One today is worth two tomorrows.

Kindness
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Law
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Liberty
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Love
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Love
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Marriage
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Marriage
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Marriage
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Passion
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

Wealth
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. -- Benjamin Franklin

Work
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.