Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

About Benjamin Franklin:

Benjamin Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.
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Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Benjamin Franklin
Education quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Best quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Knowledge quotes by Benjamin Franklin, UberQuotes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the oc...

Benjamin Franklin

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.

Benjamin Franklin

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin

Beware the hobby that eats.

Benjamin Franklin

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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Happiness quotes by Benjamin Franklin, UberQuotes

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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Author Bio

  • NameBenjamin Franklin
  • DescriptionAmerican author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat
  • AliasesThe First American; Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin
  • BornJanuary 17, 1706
  • DiedApril 17, 1790
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Politician; Publisher; Printer; Political Theorist; Postmaster; Inventor; Political Activist; Statesman; Diplomat; Dilettante; Polymath; Chess Player; Designer; Musician; Political Philosopher; Autobiographer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Copley Medal