Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility they think the same of theirs.
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
Thinking
Differ
Civility
Savages
Manners
Perfection
Call
Think
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
Benjamin Franklin
Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Benjamin Franklin
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Benjamin Franklin
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous
Benjamin Franklin
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Benjamin Franklin
What can laws do without morals?
Benjamin Franklin
A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.
Benjamin Franklin
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
Benjamin Franklin
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Benjamin Franklin
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
Benjamin Franklin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
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
