Benjamin Franklin Quotes - Page 2

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

239Fish and Visitors stink after three days

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

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

You may delay, but time will not.

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

- written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.