Benjamin Franklin Quotes (page 4)

1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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“Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.”
Hatred
“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
Health
“He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.”
Wealth
“I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.”
Enemies
“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
Wealth
“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”
Poverty and The Poor
“When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.”
Gratitude
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”
Laziness
“Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
Experience
“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
Eyes
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Life and Living
“Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.”
Manners
“It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.”
Repentance
“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
Rest
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
Expenditure
“God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.”
Law and Lawyers
“The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.”
Money
“Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
Certainty
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
Ignorance
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”
Contentment
“Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.”
Law and Lawyers
“Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.”
Tomorrow
“Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.”
Judgment and Judges
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.”
Ignorance
“She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.”
Laughter
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
Stupidity
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”
Relationships
“The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.”
Absence