Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

A man of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Well done is better than well said.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.

[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Lost Time is never found again.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.