Benjamin Franklin Quotes
1706 – 1790
American statesman, scientist, printer and writer, who published 'Poor Richard's Almanack' for many years.
36 quotesAbout Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.”
“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“If a man could half his wishes he would double his troubles.”
“If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.”
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride.”
“Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”
