Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Applause waits on success.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
The best is the cheapest.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?