Saturday, May 25, 2013

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Benjamin Franklin quotes are some of the most recognizable of all time. The simple proverbs passed on by this extraordinary man have become part of our everyday language, even if we don’t always recognize their source. But it is amazing to think that so much insight and wisdom could come from one individual. The time Franklin lived in was not an easy one and it was the struggle that he and the other founding fathers faced which gave us all the freedom to live our lives as we do today.

These Benjamin Franklin quotes were born from that struggle and they continue to offer lessons and provide inspiration that we can all benefit from:  



Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
--Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
--Benjamin Franklin


A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
--Benjamin Franklin


A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
--Benjamin Franklin


A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
--Benjamin Franklin


A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
--Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
--Benjamin Franklin


A penny saved is a penny earned.
--Benjamin Franklin


A place for everything, everything in its place.
--Benjamin Franklin


A small leak can sink a great ship.
--Benjamin Franklin


Consider the common sense of these Benjamin Franklin quotes:
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
--Benjamin Franklin


Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
--Benjamin Franklin


All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
--Benjamin Franklin


All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
--Benjamin Franklin


All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
--Benjamin Franklin


An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin


And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
--Benjamin Franklin


Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
--Benjamin Franklin


Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
--Benjamin Franklin


Applause waits on success.
--Benjamin Franklin


More Words To Live By In These Benjamin Franklin Quotes:
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
--Benjamin Franklin


At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
--Benjamin Franklin


Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
--Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
--Benjamin Franklin


Beauty and folly are old companions.
--Benjamin Franklin


Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
--Benjamin Franklin


Beware the hobby that eats.
--Benjamin Franklin


Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
--Benjamin Franklin


By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
--Benjamin Franklin


Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
--Benjamin Franklin

Few people had the capacity to comment so clearly on the world around them as did Benjamin Franklin.
These Benjamin Franklin quotes are a testament to the wisdom of this extraordinary man and it is astounding to think that they continue to encourage and inspire so many, hundreds of years after they were first spoken.

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