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Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
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More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin
When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.
Benjamin Franklin
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not let fancy outrun your means.
Benjamin Franklin
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
Benjamin Franklin
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
Benjamin Franklin
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Benjamin Franklin
Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe, the horse was lost for want of a horse, the battle was lost for want of the battle, the war was lost.
Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
Benjamin Franklin
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
Benjamin Franklin
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
Benjamin Franklin
Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.
Benjamin Franklin
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Benjamin Franklin
