2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass.