Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
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
Doe
Possesses
Possess
Wealth
Liberty
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Benjamin Franklin
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
Benjamin Franklin
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Benjamin Franklin
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
Benjamin Franklin
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
Benjamin Franklin
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
Benjamin Franklin
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
Benjamin Franklin
The things which hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
Teach your child to hold his tongue he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Benjamin Franklin
When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is money, be a better you.
Benjamin Franklin
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Benjamin Franklin
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Benjamin Franklin
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
Benjamin Franklin
