Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American statesman. He has also been known as "the First American". He was a very important person in the American Revolution and helped make the Thirteen Colonies one nation.
3 | Lost time is never found again. |
2 | It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. |
2 | He that can have patience can have what he will. |
1 | Half a truth is often a great lie. |
1 | Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. |
1 | Well done is better than well said. |
1 | He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. |
1 | It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. |
0 | Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. |
0 | Honesty is the best policy. |
0 | Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. |
0 | He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. |
0 | Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. |
0 | They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
0 | We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. |
0 | The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. |
0 | By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. |
0 | Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. |
0 | Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. |
0 | Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. |
0 | An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. |
0 | Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. |
0 | Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. |
0 | Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. |
0 | I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. |
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