Great Quotes from Benjamin Franklin
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706 – 1790)
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General. We hope you enjoyed this Wise Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin a lot of work has been put into it.
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
“Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
“There are three faithful friends an old wife an old dog and ready money.”
“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
“Time is money.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“No gains without pains.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
“Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.”
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“Haste makes waste.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
“Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
“Doused thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.”
“Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Contentment makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor.”
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
“You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
“Vice knows that he is ugly so he puts on a mask.”
“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”
“If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.”
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”
“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
“The discontented man finds no easy chair.”
“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”
“Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.”
“Buy what thou hast no seed of and air long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
