Benjamin Franklin
191 quotations
Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
Honesty is the best policy.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
The things which hurt, instruct.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Where liberty is, there is my country.