Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) quotes

• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
• A penny saved is a penny earned.
• A place for everything, everything in its place.
• A small leak can sink a great ship.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
• Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
• Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
• Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
• Creditors have better memories than debtors.
• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
• Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
• God helps those who help themselves.
• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
• He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
• He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
• It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
• Life's tragedy is that we got old to soon and wise too late.
• Necessity never made a good bargain.
• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
• There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
• There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
• Time is money.
• To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
• Tommorow, every fault is to be amended; but tommorow never comes.
• When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
• When in doubt, don't.
• Where liberty is, there is my country.
• Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
• Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tommorow.
• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.