Best 1212 quotes of Benjamin Franklin on MyQuotes

1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good example is the best sermon.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it.

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

All cats are gray in the dark.

All cats look gray in the dark.

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.