Benjamin Franklin Quotes: Time is money
Benjamin Franklin Quotes: Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
1. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
2. Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and cloth, or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
― Benjamin Franklin
3. Time is money.
― Benjamin Franklin, Advice to Young Tradesmen
4. A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
― Benjamin Franklin
5. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
― Benjamin Franklin
6. A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds
If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
― Benjamin Franklin
7. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
― Benjamin Franklin
8. Have you something to do tomorrow; do it to-day.
― Benjamin Franklin
9. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
― Benjamin Franklin
10. God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
― Benjamin Franklin
11. At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
― Benjamin Franklin
12. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
― Benjamin Franklin
13. Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.
― Benjamin Franklin
14. Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
― Benjamin Franklin
15. I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
― Benjamin Franklin
16. You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns
Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
― Benjamin Franklin
17. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
― Benjamin Franklin
18. If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
― Benjamin Franklin
19. Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.
― Benjamin Franklin
20. The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.
― Benjamin Franklin
21. 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.
― Benjamin Franklin
22. Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly.
― Benjamin Franklin
23. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
― Benjamin Franklin
24. One today is worth two tomorrows.
― Benjamin Franklin
25. The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
― Benjamin Franklin
26. A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
― Benjamin Franklin
27. The Golden Age never was the present Age.
― Benjamin Franklin
28. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
― Benjamin Franklin
29. 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.
― Benjamin Franklin
30. Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
― Benjamin Franklin
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