Benjamin Franklin
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Benjamin FranklinSearch others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin FranklinMan's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Benjamin FranklinContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinAll would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin FranklinExperience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
Benjamin FranklinA wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten thousands are devoured by men
Benjamin FranklinA countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin FranklinYou may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
Benjamin FranklinSir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
Benjamin FranklinAll things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.
Benjamin FranklinGlass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin FranklinA man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin FranklinTo be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin FranklinTell me....And I Forget, Teach me.....And I Learn, Involve Me.....And I Remember.
Benjamin FranklinWish not so much to live long as to live well.
Benjamin FranklinBeer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin FranklinPay what you owe, and you'll know what's your own.
Benjamin FranklinAt 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
Benjamin FranklinIf time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin FranklinBeing ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinThe magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate.
Benjamin FranklinHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin FranklinThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
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