Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
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Never confuse motion with action.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Observe all men, thyself most.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Remember that credit is money.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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The discontented man finds no easy chair.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
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The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
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The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
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Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.
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To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
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Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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Well done is better than well said.
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What has become clear to you since we last met?
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What's a Sun-Dial in the Shade?
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
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When in doubt, don't.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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