Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

Haste makes waste.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.