Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Good
Angry
Never
Wise
Liberty
Wisdom
Happiness
Seldom
Inspirational
Rage
Reason
Athlete
Without
Anger
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Benjamin Franklin
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.
Benjamin Franklin
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
Benjamin Franklin
All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?
Benjamin Franklin
Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.
Benjamin Franklin
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin Franklin
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
Benjamin Franklin
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
Benjamin Franklin
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
Benjamin Franklin
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
In the dark, all cats are grey.
Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Benjamin Franklin
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure and that is to try to please everyone else.
Benjamin Franklin
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Benjamin Franklin
Success is the residue of planning.
Benjamin Franklin
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Benjamin Franklin
