Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,

Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don’t.

Benjamin Franklin

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Benjamin Franklin

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Benjamin Franklin

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Benjamin Franklin

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Benjamin Franklin

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse motion with action.

Benjamin Franklin

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Benjamin Franklin

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

He that rises late must trot all day.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin