Quote

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Laughing
Joy
Happiness
Firsts
First
Would
Laughed
Laughter
Laugh

More quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
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
Image
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Let thy discontents be thy secrets
Benjamin Franklin
Image
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
Image
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Man is a tool-making animal
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Time is money, be a better you.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Do well by doing good.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
He that lives well, is learned enough.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
Image
whatever you become be good at it
Benjamin Franklin
Image
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Benjamin Franklin