Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
An old young man, will be a young old man.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
What has become clear to you since we last met?
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
Energy and persistence alter all things.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
Well done, is better than well said.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.