Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

The States acceded to the Union.

Well done is better than well said.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Speak little, do much.

whatever you become be good at it

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.