156 Quotes By Benjamin Franklin

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Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin on action

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin on beauty

Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
Benjamin Franklin on cunning

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
Benjamin Franklin on danger

[I am] lord of myself, accountable to none.
Benjamin Franklin on independence

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin on inspiration

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin on kindness

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin on law

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin on liberty

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin on love

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin on marriage

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

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin on marriage

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin on wealth

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin on work