[ benjamin franklin Quotes ]
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A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
[ Faults ]
Benjamin Franklin
14 votes
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
[ Cheerfulness ]
Benjamin Franklin
14 votes
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
[ Ignorance ]
Benjamin Franklin
21 votes
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
[ Laziness ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
[ Tact and Tactfulness ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
[ Admiration ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
An old young man, will be a young old man.
[ Age and Aging ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
[ Marriage ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Applause waits on success.
[ Popularity ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
[ Age and Aging ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
[ Ignorance ]
Benjamin Franklin
18 votes
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
[ Expenditure ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Beware the hobby that eats.
[ Caution ]
Benjamin Franklin
19 votes
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
[ Expectation ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
[ Necessity ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
[ Planning ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
[ Certainty ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
[ Complaints and Complaining ]
Benjamin Franklin
14 votes
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
[ Contentment ]
Benjamin Franklin
15 votes
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
[ Diligence ]
Benjamin Franklin
15 votes
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
[ Relationships ]
Benjamin Franklin
20 votes
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
[ Anxiety ]
Benjamin Franklin
13 votes
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
[ Neighbors ]
Benjamin Franklin
18 votes
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
[ Habit ]
Benjamin Franklin
15 votes
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
[ Sleep ]
Benjamin Franklin
17 votes
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
[ Writers and Writing ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Energy and persistence alter all things.
[ Energy ]
Benjamin Franklin
12 votes
Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.
[ Experience ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
[ Reputation ]
Benjamin Franklin
16 votes
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
[ Doctors ]
Benjamin Franklin
15 votes
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
[ Virtue ]
Benjamin Franklin
14 votes
God