2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them, these are are the best guides for man.