Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Well done is better than well said.

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

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.