Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

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

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.