2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Getting it done is my reward.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?