Fave Ben Franklin quotes

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• A place for everything, everything in its place.
• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
• Fatigue is the best pillow.
• It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
• He that rises late must trot all day.
• He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
• He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
• Necessity never made a good bargain.
• Never confuse motion with action.
• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
• Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
• Well done is better than well said.
• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
• When in doubt, don't.
• Where liberty is, there is my country.
• Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?