Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.
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
World
Exists
Exist
Joy
Doesn
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Families ought to be noisy.
Benjamin Franklin
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
Benjamin Franklin
Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare.
Benjamin Franklin
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Read much, but not too many books.
Benjamin Franklin
What good shall I do this day?
Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
The things which hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Benjamin Franklin
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
Benjamin Franklin
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.
Benjamin Franklin
There was great difference in persons and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
Benjamin Franklin
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure the rest always say and do as they ought.
Benjamin Franklin
Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.
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
