Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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
Men
Daily
Subject
Agree
Subjects
Church
Sense
Differ
States
Invisible
Things
Likely
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
All cats are gray in the dark.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so It is not so. It is so it is not so.
Benjamin Franklin
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
Innocence is its own defense.
Benjamin Franklin
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin
Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.
Benjamin Franklin
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
Benjamin Franklin
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise Counsel.
Benjamin Franklin
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not let fancy outrun your means.
Benjamin Franklin
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains then shall thy pocket begin to thrive creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
Benjamin Franklin
