Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
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
Diligent
Leisure
Useful
Something
Time
More quotes by 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
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.
Benjamin Franklin
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time can never be found again
Benjamin Franklin
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin
The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.
Benjamin Franklin
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
Benjamin Franklin
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
Benjamin Franklin
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin
Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Benjamin Franklin
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
Benjamin Franklin
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.
Benjamin Franklin
An old young man, will be a young old man.
Benjamin Franklin
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.
Benjamin Franklin
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
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
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin
