Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
A small leak can sink a great ship
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Industry need not wish.
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.