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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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Benjamin Franklin

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Benjamin Franklin

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Benjamin Franklin

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the mor...

Benjamin Franklin

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Benjamin Franklin

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