Greatest Benjamin Franklin QuotesThe Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes, including funny and inspirational quotes By Benjamin Franklin. "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. What Are Your favorite Benjamin Franklin Quotes?
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? When you're finished changing, you're finished. I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. A penny saved is a penny earned If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. God heals and the doctor takes the fee. Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. You may delay, but time will not. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. A small leak can sink a great ship. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Well done is better than well said. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. He that rises late must trot all day. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. The discontented man finds no easy chair. 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. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. Never confuse motion with action. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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