Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

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

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.