Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

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.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

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.

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.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

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

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.