Benjamin Franklin Quotes

...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George the III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.

The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Governor Thomas was so pleas'd with the Construction of this Stove, as describ'd in it, that he offer'd to give me a Patent for the sole Vending of them for a Term of Years; but I declin'd it from a Principle which has ever weigh'd with me on such Occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of Others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

A man of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.