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?