Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Quotes

• Lost time is never found again.

• Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.

• Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

• Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.

• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

• The doors of wisdom are never shut.

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

• The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

• The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

• Time is money.

• Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

• You may delay, but time will not.

• So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.