Benjamin Franklin Quotes List 10


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.
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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.
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Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Beware the hobby that eats.
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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

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.
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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.
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Applause waits on success.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes List 9


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

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
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Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
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A penny saved is a penny earned.
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A place for everything, everything in its place.
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A small leak can sink a great ship.
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