Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty s...”

“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.”

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

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

“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17...”

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

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

“I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.”

“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”