Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

American statesman and physicist

Lived from: 1706 - 1790

Category: Politics | Scientists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 january 1706 Died: 17 april 1790

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  • There are no gains without pains.
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  • Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
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  • Well done, is better than well said.
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  • When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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  • You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
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  • Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
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  • A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
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  • A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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  • A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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  • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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  • A little neglect may breed great mischief.
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  • A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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  • All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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  • An old young man, will be a young old man.
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  • An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
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  • And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
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  • Applause waits on success.
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  • At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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  • Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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  • Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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