Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

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

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Love and lordship hate companions

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

He that takes a wife, takes care

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

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.