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Benjamin Franklin Quotes


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Wise men don't need advice.  Fools won't take it.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
[Companionship]

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
[Work]
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
[Marriage]

You may delay, but time will not.
[One Day]

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.


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