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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
Doubt
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Great, Small, Ship
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Great, Cake, Empire
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin
Parents, Security, Distrust
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
Great, Made, Value
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Win, Friends
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Wars, Expensive, Follies
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Age, Judgment, Wit
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance, Daughter, Admiration
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
Love, Loved
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
Faith, Alone, Follow
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Mother, Luck
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
Today, Two, Worth
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
Less, Spend, Stone
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Speak, Everybody
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Anger, Reason
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Succeed, Jump, Quickly
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Silence, Word, Idle
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
Finished, Changing
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
Rich, Sick, Wealth
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin
Mind, Old, Fat
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
Respect, Political, Easy
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, Eyes, Before
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
Later, Paid, Wars
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor, Shame, Ashamed

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Biography

Nationality: American
Born: January 17, 1706
Died: April 17, 1790

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