Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
Remember that credit is money.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.