2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.