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Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 27

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Time, Age
Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.

Benjamin Franklin
Lazy, Mind, Body
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

Families ought to be noisy.

Benjamin Franklin
Family, Ought, Noisy

A true friend is the greatest possesion.

Benjamin Franklin
True Friend, True Friend Is

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Being Happy, Mean

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Use, Advantage
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1838). “The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.182

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Benjamin Franklin
Humorous, Littles, Too Much
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Benjamin Franklin
People, Affliction, Bears

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Together, World

Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.

Benjamin Franklin
Eye, Bears, Priests
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.18, Nayika Publishing

To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Ignorance, People
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.366

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Art, Men
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Liberty, Poverty
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.24, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Library, Purses

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Benjamin Franklin
4th Of July, Estates, Trade
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.2

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin
Humorous, Cat, Law
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin
Love, Inspirational, Life
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Benjamin Franklin
Support, Religion, Atheism
Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: comprising a series of letters on miscellaneous, literary, and political subjects written between the years 1753 and 1790, illustrating the memoirs of his public and private life, and developing the secret history of his political transactions and negociations”, p.69

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin
Children, Childhood, Tongue
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Benjamin Franklin
Secret, Contentment, World
Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.87, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

Benjamin Franklin
Honey, Sweet Honey
1735 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

Benjamin Franklin
Money, Morning, Men
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1823). “The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself: Together with a Number of His Humorous, Moral, and Literary Essays, Chiefly in the Manner of The Spectator”, p.177

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.

Benjamin Franklin
Beautiful, Simple, Reality

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Benjamin Franklin
Flower, Optimistic, Optimism

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Benjamin Franklin
Mom, Daughter, Mother
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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