quotes from classic
/ page 858 of 1205 /It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
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.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
