2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one never.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means either may do the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

Tomorrow I'll reform, the fool does say; / Today itself's too late; —the wise did yesterday.

An open foe may prove a curse but a pretended friend is worse.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.

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

Don't judge of men's wealth or piety by their Sunday appearances.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practised it.