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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
Made, Hide, Talents
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
Die, Until, Five
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Country, Liberty
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, Love
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
Hope, Die, Lives
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin
Everything, Why, She
Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin
Food, Hobby, Beware
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
Law, Sometimes, Injustice
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin
Good, Victory, Sometimes
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
Rather, Debt, Rise
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Education, Genius, Mine
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
Wife, Often, Both
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
Love, Himself, Falls
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
Death, Die, Few
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, Shut, Doors
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin
Bad, Break, Habits
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin
Time, Person, Lazy
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Benjamin Franklin
Mankind, Agree, Convinced
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
War, Peace, Good
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Together, Shall, Surely
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
Fine, Eye, Blind
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
Beauty, Old, Folly
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience, School, Learn
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
Live, May, Two
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin
Speaks, Mistaken

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Biography

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

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