Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."

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

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"A place for everything, everything in its place."

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."

"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."

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

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

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

"Well done is better than well said."

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

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

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

"Time is money."

"You may delay, but time will not."

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