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Some of Benjamin Franklin's Wisdom "Where liberty is, there is my country."
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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.
When in doubt, don't.
Haste makes waste.
Time is money.
Honesty is the best policy.
Remember that credit is money.
A penny saved is a penny earned. Beware of little expenses.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
God helps those who help themselves.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Well done is better than well said.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Never confuse motion with action.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Beware the hobby that eats.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
He that's secure is not safe.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.