Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
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
Purse
Purses
Leave
Open
Oversee
Workmen
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
Benjamin Franklin
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
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
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
Benjamin Franklin
La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
Benjamin Franklin
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
Benjamin Franklin
To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.
Benjamin Franklin
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.
Benjamin Franklin
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.
Benjamin Franklin
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.
Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
Stand firm, don't flutter!
Benjamin Franklin
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
Benjamin Franklin
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Benjamin Franklin
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
