Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
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
Investment
Knowledge
Profitable
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
Benjamin Franklin
The world is run by the people who show up.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
Benjamin Franklin
Revealed religion has no weight with me.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
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
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.
Benjamin Franklin
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
Benjamin Franklin
Hope of gain lessens pain.
Benjamin Franklin
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Benjamin Franklin
Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
Benjamin Franklin
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
Benjamin Franklin
If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
Benjamin Franklin
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
Benjamin Franklin
As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things happen.
Benjamin Franklin
