Benjamin Franklin Quotes And Sayings

Hide Not Your Talents. They For Use Were Made. What's A Sundial In The Shade?

Where There Is A Free Government, And The People Make Their Own Laws By Their Representatives, I See No Injustice In Their Obliging One Another To Take Their Own Paper Money.

As We Must Account For Every Idle Word, So Must We Account For Every Idle Silence.

I Saw Few Die Of Hunger; Of Eating, A Hundred Thousand.

Even Peace May Be Purchased At Too High A Price.

If Passion Drives You, Let Reason Hold The Reins.

He That Would Live In Peace And At Ease Must Not Speak All He Knows Or All He Sees.

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.

Never Leave That Till Tomorrow Which You Can Do Today.

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.

Where Liberty Is, There Is My Country.

It Takes Many Good Deeds To Build A Good Reputation, And Only One Bad One To Lose It.

Observe All Men, Thyself Most.

If You Know How To Spend Less Than You Get, You Have The Philosopher's Stone.

To Follow By Faith Alone Is To Follow Blindly.

He That Can Have Patience Can Have What He Will.

The Worst Wheel Of The Cart Makes The Most Noise.

Content Makes Poor Men Rich; Discontent Makes Rich Men Poor.

God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

I Am For Doing Good To The Poor, But I Differ In Opinion About The Means. 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.

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.'

I Have Never Entered Into Any Controversy In Defense Of My Philosophical Opinions; I Leave Them To Take Their Chance In The World. If They Are Right, Truth And Experience Will Support Them; If Wrong, They Ought To Be Refuted And Rejected. Disputes Are Apt To Sour One's Temper And Disturb One's Quiet.