Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Quotes

• He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

• Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,

• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

• God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.

• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

• In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

• To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

• I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

• Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

• Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

• Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

• Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

• But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

• To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.