2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a- borrowing goes a-sorrowing