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  • You may delay, but time will not.

    Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
  • Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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

    Benjamin Franklin (1945). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”
  • If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249
  • 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

  • The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

    Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Franklin's Way to Wealth; or “Poor Richard improved,&c.” A new edition ... enlarged by Bob Short and adorned with copper-plates”, p.13
  • Lost time is never found again.

    Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80
  • Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

  • Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746
  • Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

    Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.38
  • If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.196, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

  • If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

    "The Autobiography and Other Writings".
  • At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

    'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June
  • An old young man, will be a young old man.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing
  • One today is worth two tomorrows.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing
  • Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238
  • One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.

  • Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

  • Time is money.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.244
  • A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

  • If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  • Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing
  • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

    Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.250
  • Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

    Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”
  • He that rises late must trot all day.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing
  • There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

    Benjamin Franklin (1811). “The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin”, p.155
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Benjamin Franklin

  • Born: January 17, 1706
  • Died: April 17, 1790
  • Occupation: Founding Father of the United States