Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Don't cry over spilled milk

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.