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If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Mind Blowing, Planning

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

Benjamin Franklin
Growth, World, Growing

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Government, Opposites

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Benjamin Franklin
Hard Work, Mean, Kids

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

Benjamin Franklin
Wise, Religious, Prayer

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Life, Crazy
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, People, Deep Thought

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Benjamin Franklin
Saws, Should, Avarice
Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1734

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin
Happiness, Government, Guarantees

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Benjamin Franklin
4th Of July, Liberty, Wealth
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin
Sacrifice, Security And Freedom, Liberty
Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin (1759). “An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania: From Its Origin, So Far as Regards the Several Points of Controversy, which Have, from Time to Time, Arisen Between the Several Governors of that Province, and Their Several Assemblies : Founded on Authentic Documents”, p.7

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Motivational, Health

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Thinking, Buying In
Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

Benjamin Franklin
Country, Food, Character
Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, 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
Country, Government, Different
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.298, Bantam Classics

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Benjamin Franklin
Rights, Law, Favors
Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published”, p.457

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

Benjamin Franklin
Sound, Argument

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Benjamin Franklin
Book, Men, Reader
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.115, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Benjamin Franklin
War, Way, Danger
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.235

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Benjamin Franklin
Clear, Clear Conscience, Conscience

A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Best Friend, Brother
Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

Benjamin Franklin
Funny, Laughter, Humor

If better is possible, good is not enough

Benjamin Franklin
Enough, Ifs

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity
"Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

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