Benjamin Franklin
| Born | January 17, 1706 Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Died | April 17, 1790 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
The repository contains 54 quotes from Benjamin Franklin.
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He who won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
Classics • History • Politics and Government
Our Constitution is in actual operation. Everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
A secret known to three people can be kept as long as two of them are dead.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
Honour, worthily obtained, is in its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Energy and pestilence alter all things.
Fish and houseguests smell after three days.
We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately.
Justice • Politics and Government
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Writing his own epitaph (which was not used):
The body of
B. Franklin, Printer
(Like the Cover of an Old book
Its Contents torn out
And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will (as he Believ’d) Appear Once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Letter to Josiah Quincy
Sept. 11, 1773
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Always to suppose one’s friends may be right till one finds them wrong, rather than to suppose them wrong till one finds them right.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment.
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