184 quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Cheerfulness

3.8 · 20 votes

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

Ignorance

4.1 · 62 votes · 136 reads

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Laziness

3.3 · 54 votes · 168 reads

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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Bachelor

3.9 · 50 votes · 179 reads

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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Tactfulness

4.7 · 49 votes

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Feelings
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
4.6 · 59 votes · 145 reads
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Defects
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
4.1 · 56 votes · 26 reads
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Time
An old young man, will be a young old man.
4.9 · 10 votes · 13 reads
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Society
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
3.8 · 42 votes · 70 reads
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Various
Applause waits on success.
4.7 · 60 votes · 116 reads
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Time
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
3.2 · 48 votes · 98 reads
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Society
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best ch
3.9 · 39 votes · 38 reads
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Defects
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
3.4 · 56 votes · 81 reads
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Various
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
4.0 · 12 votes · 144 reads
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Various
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
3.7 · 34 votes · 65 reads
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Feelings
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
5.0 · 11 votes · 100 reads
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Defects
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
4.6 · 33 votes · 175 reads
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Defects
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
4.5 · 57 votes · 2 reads
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Various
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
3.1 · 47 votes · 44 reads
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Feelings
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
4.0 · 60 votes · 65 reads
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Thought and Reason
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
3.8 · 61 votes · 71 reads
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Various
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
5.0 · 36 votes · 72 reads
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Feelings
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
4.0 · 64 votes · 113 reads
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Society
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
3.5 · 55 votes · 185 reads
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Various
Don't throw stones at your neighbours , if your own windows are glass.
3.0 · 26 votes · 39 reads
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Various
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
3.8 · 30 votes · 11 reads
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Society
Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.
4.0 · 34 votes · 92 reads
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Various
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
3.5 · 39 votes · 125 reads
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Various
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
3.2 · 17 votes · 19 reads
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Art and Culture
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
3.6 · 49 votes · 46 reads
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Virtues
Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.
4.7 · 55 votes · 161 reads
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Virtues
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
4.2 · 17 votes · 154 reads
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Time
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
5.0 · 31 votes · 187 reads
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Virtues
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
3.3 · 17 votes · 138 reads
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Science and Technology
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
5.0 · 62 votes · 192 reads
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Government and Politics
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
3.9 · 20 votes · 8 reads
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Thought and Reason
Half wits talk much, but say little.
4.7 · 20 votes · 161 reads
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Feelings
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
4.2 · 23 votes · 92 reads
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Various
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
3.6 · 60 votes · 93 reads
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Society
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
3.5 · 9 votes · 167 reads
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Various
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
4.1 · 23 votes · 123 reads
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Virtues
He that can have patience can have what he will.
3.4 · 35 votes · 76 reads
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Feelings
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
4.5 · 30 votes · 89 reads
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Virtues
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
4.7 · 24 votes · 37 reads
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Society
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
3.2 · 49 votes · 33 reads
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