Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
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
Posterity
Kindness
Respect
Kind
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
A fat kitchin, a lean Will.
Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Benjamin Franklin
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin
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
An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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
Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.
Benjamin Franklin
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
Benjamin Franklin
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
Benjamin Franklin
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .
Benjamin Franklin
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
Benjamin Franklin
Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.
Benjamin Franklin
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
