2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Drink Water, Put the Money in your Pocket, and leave the Dry-bellyach in the Punchbowl

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.

He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.