Benjamin Franklin
If you have something to do tomorrow, do it today.
Benjamin FranklinHe who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
Benjamin FranklinEven peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin FranklinAn undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Benjamin FranklinDon't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.
Benjamin FranklinFor the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Benjamin FranklinHe that won't be counselled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinA child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Benjamin FranklinAll human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin FranklinTo be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
Benjamin FranklinWe must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinHappiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin FranklinNo gains without pains.
Benjamin FranklinOne today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin FranklinHe does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
Benjamin FranklinAnger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Benjamin FranklinWe must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin FranklinYou may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin FranklinHaving been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin FranklinGlass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
Benjamin FranklinHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin FranklinThe strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin FranklinThose things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin FranklinThose who would give up essential freedoms for security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
Benjamin Franklin
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