Benjamin Franklin is considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a leading author, inventor, diplomat, political theorist, and more; Franklin has left many invaluable memories behind.
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.”
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin pic.twitter.com/CFWu2TbU79
— Trading Proverbs (@tradingproverbs) April 6, 2016
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?”
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
Good advice from Benjamin Franklin… pic.twitter.com/U3EaBhVuuA
— Robert Ford (@Robert__Ford) April 6, 2016
“Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
“Lost Time is never found again.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
"If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today." – Benjamin Franklin pic.twitter.com/Kw0e78RVOk
— Murray Newlands (@MurrayNewlands) March 31, 2016
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.””
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
“When you are finished changing, you’re finished. When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
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