Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price

Benjamin Franklin

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

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor

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Half a truth is often a great lie

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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones

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God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man

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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her

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Games lubricate the body and the mind

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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals

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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it

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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed

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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

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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

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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

Benjamin Franklin