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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
American
-
Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty
Who
Safety
Deserve
Essential
Give
Little
Neither
Nor
Obtain
Temporary
Up
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Me
Learning
Remember
Forget
Tell
Involve
Learn
Teach
I Remember
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Success
Achievement
Growth
Words
Improvement
Meaning
Progress
Without
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
Lose
Bad
Good Deeds
Bad One
Build
Deeds
Good Reputation
Many
Only
Reputation
Takes
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
You
Time
May
Will
Delay
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
Self
Know
Things
Hard
Diamond
Extremely
Steel
Three
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Freedom
Liberty
Speech
Freedom Of Speech
Public
Thing
Thought
Without
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Today
You
Tomorrow
Never
Leave
Till
Which
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
Money
Will
Doing
Opinion
Everything
He
May
Suspected
Well
When in doubt, don't.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Doubt
When In Doubt
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Motivational
Better
Well Done
Done
Said
Than
Well
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational
Everything
Place
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
Never
Fault
Present
Without
Absent
Excuse
Nor
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
Morning
Look
Name
Wake Up
Every
Get
Grab
Nine
Obituary
Page
Paper
Then
Up
Wake
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
Grow
Gray
Many
Few
Foxes
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
Work
Knowledge
Stupid
Born
Work Hard
Hard
Ignorant
Must
Remain
Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Money
Time Is Money
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Never
Lost
Found
Again
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Benjamin Franklin
Law
Injustice
Sometimes
Becomes
Strictest
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin
Silence
Must
Idle
Every
Account
Word
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
Mother
Good
Luck
Good Luck
Diligence
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
Value
Things
Mankind
Brought
Conceive
Estimates
False
Great Part
Made
Miseries
Part
Them
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
He
Excuses
Anything
Making
Anything Else
Else
Seldom
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
Finance
Will
Ship
Beware
Expenses
Leak
Little
Sink
Small
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin
Love
You
Loved
Would
Would-Be
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
Anger
Whatever
Shame
Ends
Begun
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Small
Up
Himself
Makes
Bundle
Very
Wrapped
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Good
War
Peace
Never
Bad
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Three
Mankind
Divided
Move
Classes
Immovable
Movable
Those
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Education
Genius
Like
Silver
Mine
Without
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Great
Time
Mistake
Being
Certain
Goodness
Grand
Great Man
Never
Pronounce
Same
Same Time
Think
Truly
Virtuous
Without
Hunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin Franklin
Best
Hunger
Pickle
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin Franklin
Art
People
Acting
Coughing
Consists
Keeping
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
Beauty
Old
Folly
Companions
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
Me
You
Man
Thief
Brief
Depends
Given
Honest
Honest Man
Solicitor
Whether
Whose
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth
His
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin Franklin
Rich
Feel
Sick
Wealth
Fully
Impotence
Only
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Fire
Home
Food
Mind
Body
Contains
House
Unless
Well
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.
Benjamin Franklin
Work
Religion
World
Think
Binds
Cannot
Like
Partnership
Sanction
See
Serious
Us
Which
Who
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
You
Failure
Fear
Will
Continue
Know
Mistakes
Out
Reach
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin
Mind
Fat
Old
Being
Guess
Much
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
Moment
Remember
The Right Thing
More
Difficult
Far
Leave
Only
Place
Right
Right Place
Right Thing
Say
Still
Tempting
Thing
Unsaid
Wrong
Wrong Thing
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
Injuries
Marble
Dust
Write
Benefits
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth
He
Does
Him
Possess
Possesses
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
Hope
Die
Will
Fasting
He
Lives
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
Kindness
You
Yourself
Will
Another
Done
He
More
Obliged
Ready
Than
Whom
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
Ignorance
Daughter
Admiration
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
Great
Time
Things
Makes
All Things
Haste
Take
Waste
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin
You
Feel
Reason
She
Hear
Her
Make
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin
Parents
Security
Caution
Distrust
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