Benjamin Franklin's Quotes

Benjamin Franklin's Quotes 258

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to...

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no...

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

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your...

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them,...

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution...

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by...

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical...

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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