Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
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
Learns
Awe
Contentment
Wise
Wisdom
Everyone
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.
Benjamin Franklin
Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!
Benjamin Franklin
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
Benjamin Franklin
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not let fancy outrun your means.
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
It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Never contradict anybody.
Benjamin Franklin
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Benjamin Franklin
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
Benjamin Franklin
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.
Benjamin Franklin
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Benjamin Franklin
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
There's no gain, without pain.
Benjamin Franklin
