Benjamin Franklin Quotes
20 quotes from Benjamin Franklin — Founding Father, inventor, diplomat, printer, scientist, and polymath..
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
“He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
“Better slip with foot than tongue.”
“Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.”
“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
“He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“A right Heart exceeds all.”
“What you seem to be, be really.”
“A true Friend is the best Possession.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the Stuff Life is made of.”
“I took care not only to be in Reality Industrious and frugal, but to avoid all Appearances of the Contrary.”
“The more I discover'd of the former, the more I admir'd them; the more I know of the latter, the more I am disgusted with them. Men I find to be a Sort of Beings very badly constructed, as they are generally more easily provok'd than reconcil'd, more dispos'd to do Mischief to each other than to make Reparation.”
“I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: 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. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.”
“I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: 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.”
“Men I find to be a Sort of Beings very badly constructed, as they are generally more easily provok'd than reconcil'd, more dispos'd to do Mischief to each other than to make Reparation, much more easily deceiv'd than undeceiv'd, and having more Pride & even Pleasure in killing than in begetting one another.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitutions as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”
“No one can replace him, Sir; I am only his successor.”
