Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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
Finance
Rise
Bed
Debt
Dinner
Rather
Money
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
Benjamin Franklin
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
Benjamin Franklin
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Benjamin Franklin
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.
Benjamin Franklin
He that's content hath enough.
Benjamin Franklin
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Benjamin Franklin
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge
Benjamin Franklin
Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.
Benjamin Franklin
As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
Benjamin Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
Benjamin Franklin
If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her.
Benjamin Franklin
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
Benjamin Franklin
