Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Our necessities never equal our wants

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

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

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.

What has become clear to you since we last met?

No Wood without Bark.

Applause waits on success.

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 occasion.

Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Lying rides upon debts back.

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

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments