Benjamin Franklin: Trending quotes (page 7)

“But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!”

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”

“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.”

“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ”

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ”

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”

“The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise counsel.”

“Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. ”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

“Remember that money is of the prolific, generating nature. ”

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”

“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”