Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
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
Certainly
Time
Defer
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
Benjamin Franklin
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
Benjamin Franklin
A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
Benjamin Franklin
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Benjamin Franklin
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest But I mean such wives as are none of the best
Benjamin Franklin
He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
Benjamin Franklin
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
Benjamin Franklin
Success is the residue of planning.
Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.
Benjamin Franklin
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
Benjamin Franklin
Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
Benjamin Franklin
The only time not wasted is wasted time.
Benjamin Franklin
If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel
Benjamin Franklin
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Benjamin Franklin
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
Benjamin Franklin
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.
Benjamin Franklin
