Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Life
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Half the truth is often a great lie.
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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.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
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Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
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Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
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Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.
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The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
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Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
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Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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