2,150 Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it....

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

Kate would have Thomas, no one blame her can: Tom won't have Kate, and who can blame the Man?

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Changing Countries or Beds, cures neither a bad Manager, nor a Fever.

All cats are gray in the dark.