Benjamin Franklin Quotes

“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.”

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

“Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”

“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.”

“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

“Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?”

“Fish and visitors stink in three days.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”