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Benjamin Franklin [1706-1790] American

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Politician, Founding Father of the United States

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.	Learning	49
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.	Best, Education, Knowledge	101
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.	Funny, God	103
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.	Knowledge, Work	104
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.	Success	105
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.	Health	106
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.	Motivational	107
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.	Happiness, Money, Nature	108
Well done is better than well said.	Motivational	109
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.		110
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.	Finance, Great	111
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.	Happiness	112
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.	Death, Finance	113
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.	Anger	114
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.		115
Lost time is never found again.	Time	116
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.	Life	117
A place for everything, everything in its place.	Inspirational	118
Energy and persistence conquer all things.		119
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.		120
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.	Death	121
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.	Good	122
You may delay, but time will not.	Time	123
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.	Failure, Fear	124
Diligence is the mother of good luck.	Good	125
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.	Friendship	126
A penny saved is a penny earned.	Money	201
One today is worth two tomorrows.	Inspirational	202
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.	Knowledge, Wisdom	203
God helps those who help themselves.	God	204
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?		205
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.	Freedom, Wisdom	206
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.	Peace	207
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.	Food	208
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.		209
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.		210
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.	Men	211
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.	Anger, Good	212
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.	Money	213
Time is money.	Money, Time	214
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.	Love	215
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.		216
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.	Great, Time	217
Beauty and folly are old companions.	Beauty	218
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.	Food, Home	219
When in doubt, don't.	Wisdom	220
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.		221
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.	God	222
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.		223
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.	Peace	224
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.	Time, Wisdom	225
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.		226
The doors of wisdom are never shut.	Wisdom	301
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.	Good, Government	302
Never confuse motion with action.		303
Half a truth is often a great lie.	Great, Truth	304
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.		305
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.		306
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.		307
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.	Men	308
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.	Age	309
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.		310
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.		311
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.	Finance, Good	312
Honesty is the best policy.	Best, Wisdom	313
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.		314
Where liberty is, there is my country.		315
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.		316
He that can have patience can have what he will.	Patience	317
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.		318
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.		319
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.	Time	320
Industry need not wish.		321
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.	Work	322
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.	Money, Wisdom	323
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.	Anniversary, Happiness, Marriage	324
Mine is better than ours.		325
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.	Alone, Faith	326
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.		401
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.		402
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.	Marriage	403
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.	Work	404
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.		405
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.		406
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.		407
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.		408
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.	Courage	409
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.	Best	410
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.		411
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'	Knowledge	412
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.		413
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.		414
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.		415
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.		416
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.		417
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.		418
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.		419
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.	Religion	420
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.		421
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.		422
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.		423
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.	Experience	424
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.		425
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.	New Year's, Peace, War	426
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.		501
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.		502
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.	Respect	503
When you're finished changing, you're finished.		504
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.		505
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.		506
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.	Family	507
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.		508
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.	Business, Wisdom	509
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.		510
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.		511
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.		512
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.		513
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.		514
Observe all men, thyself most.		515
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.		516
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.		517
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.		518
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.		519
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.		520
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.	Government	521
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.	Christmas	522
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.		523
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.		524
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.	War	525
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?		526
Fatigue is the best pillow.		601
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.		602
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.		603
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.		604
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.	Learning	605
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.		606
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.		607
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.		608
Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.		609
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.		610
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.		611
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.		612
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.		613
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.	Morning	614
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.	Hope	615
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.		616
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.		617
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.		618
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.		619
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.		620
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.	Education	621
Hunger is the best pickle.		622
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.		623
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.		624
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.		625
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.		626
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.		701
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.		702
Games lubricate the body and the mind.		703
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.		704
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.		705
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.		706
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.		707
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.		708
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.		709
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.		710
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?		711
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.	Happiness	712
The discontented man finds no easy chair.		713
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.		714
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.		715
Remember that credit is money.		716
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.		717
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.	Faith	718
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.	Diet	719
He that's secure is not safe.		720
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.		721
Applause waits on success.		722
He that rises late must trot all day.		723
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.		724
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.		725
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.		726
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.		801
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.	Faith	802
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.		803
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.		804
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.	War	805
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.		806
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.	Easter	807
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.		808
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.	Peace, War	809
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.		810
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.		811
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.		812
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.	Marriage	813
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.		814
Beware the hobby that eats.	Food	815
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.		816
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.		817
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?		818
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.		819
Necessity never made a good bargain.		820
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.		821
Our necessities never equal our wants.		822
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.		823
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.	Morning	824
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.		825
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.		826
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.		901
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.		902
Danger is sauce for prayers.		903
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.		904
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.		905
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.	Chance	906
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.		907
Creditors have better memories than debtors.		908
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.		909
No nation was ever ruined by trade.		910
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.		911
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.		912
A penny saved is two pence clear.		913
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.		914

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