Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

By Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine

By Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

By Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature

By Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

By Benjamin Franklin

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

By Benjamin Franklin

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

By Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.

By Benjamin Franklin

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

By Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other

By Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

By Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

By Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

By Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

By Benjamin Franklin

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

By Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

By Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society

By Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

By Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee

By Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

By Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

By Benjamin Franklin

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

By Benjamin Franklin

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

By Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch

By Benjamin Franklin

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

By Benjamin Franklin

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.

By Benjamin Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

By Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

By Benjamin Franklin

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

By Benjamin Franklin

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

By Benjamin Franklin