Benjamin Franklin Quotes

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."

"Well done is better than well said."

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

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."

"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."

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

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

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

"You may delay, but time will not."

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

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

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

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

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"Lost time is never found again."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."