Benjamin Franklin Quotes and its meanings

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Honesty is the best policy.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Beware the hobby that eats.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

God helps those who help themselves.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Well done is better than well said.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Applause waits on success.

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Honesty is the best policy.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.