Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.
Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin Franklin
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
When in doubt, don’t.
Benjamin Franklin