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Benjamin Franklin Quotes | Quotes said by Benjamin Franklin

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #1

    ... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #2

    ... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #3

    ...as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #4

    ...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #5

    1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you...

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #6

    A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #7

    A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #8

    A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #9

    A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #10

    A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #11

    A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #12

    A man of words and not of deeds,
    Is like a garden full of weeds.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #13

    A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #14

    A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #15

    A penny saved is a penny earned.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #16

    A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #17

    A place for everything, everything in its place.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #18

    A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded — such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple, the coming of Christ to repair the mischief, his miracles and suffering, etc. When he had finished an Indian orator stood up to thank him.

    ‘What you have told us,’ says he, ‘is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers. In return, I will tell you some of those we have heard from ours.

    ‘In the beginning, our fathers had only the flesh of animals to subsist on, and if their hunting was unsuccessful they were starving. Two of our young hunters, having killed a deer, made a fire in the woods to boil some parts of it. When they were about to satisfy their hunger, they beheld a beautiful young woman descend from the clouds and seat herself on that hill which you see yonder among the Blue Mountains.

    ‘They said to each other, “It is a spirit that perhaps has smelt our broiling venison and wishes to eat of it; let us offer some to her.” They presented her with the tongue; she was pleased with the taste of it and said: “Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children to the latest generations.” They did so, and to their surprise found plants they had never seen before, but which from that ancient time have been constantly cultivated among us to our great advantage. Where her right hand had touched the ground they found maize; where her left had touched it they found kidney-beans; and where her backside had sat on it they found tobacco.’

    The good missionary, disgusted with this idle tale, said: ‘What I delivered to you were sacred truths; but what you tell me is mere fable, fiction, and falsehood.’

    The Indian, offended, replied: ‘My brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that we, who understand and practise those rules, believed all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours?

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #19

    After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #20

    After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #21

    All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #22

    All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #23

    An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #24

    An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #25

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #26

    Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #27

    At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #28

    Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #29

    Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

  • Benjamin Franklin Quote #30

    Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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