2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.